News
Nov 30, 2011
No Running Water: A special investigative series
During November the Winnepeg Free Press ran a fantastic series on the issues surrounding the lack of water in Northern Manitoba.
Thousands of Island Lake residents still haul their drinking water in pails from a community tap and rely on outhouses or latrine buckets that some dump on the ground close to home. What will it take for these Manitobans to secure what the United Nations recognizes as an essential human right to safe water and sanitation?
Click on link below to access numerous articles and videos on the health and other impacts to First Nations of life without running water.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/no-running-water/