Water Crisis in Neskantaga First Nation – Community Seeks Solutions – Net Newsledger
Neskantaga First Nation – Neskantaga is facing a crisis. The water to the 90 homes and businesses in the community has been shut off. There is an oily scum on the water in the water treatment plant.
The community has faced a twenty-five-year boil water advisory. Now, due to this latest problem it is now a NO WATER at all crisis.
Water is a basic human right. Water is essential for life itself. For 25 years, the First Nation Community of Neskantaga has lived with a boil water advisory, and with political promises that the problem will be fixed.
Today, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Neskantaga invited media into the community to see first hand the problem facing the remote Northern Ontario community right now.
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