Tuesday, 6 October 2015

No clean water in Shoal Lake reserve for 20 years

"WINNIPEG -- A reserve cut off from the mainland and under a boil-water advisory for almost two decades is taking its case to the United Nations.

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, which straddles the Manitoba-Ontario boundary, became isolated a century ago during construction of an aqueduct which carries water to Winnipeg. The reserve has no all-weather road and has been without clean water for 17 years."

Read the full story on CTV News

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