Ottawa company sells water to highlight ongoing advisories on First Nations

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With more than two dozen First Nation communities in Canada still under drinking water advisories, two Indigenous business leaders are doing their part to change that.

"We wanted to create awareness of what was going on in our communities and what's still going on," Tyson Wesley, co-owner of FN Clean Water in Ottawa, told CTV National News.

Some, such as Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario, have been under a long-term drinking water advisory for nearly three decades.Although the federal government has lifted 135 long-term drinking water advisories since November 2015, its latest figures show it also added 66 advisories during that time.

The company is still in its early stages and its owners say they hope to get more retailers involved.

 

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Don't sell it give it to them.

Genocide of natives still going on in canada. Nothing surprising. No clean water for them but there are millions available for Ukrainian nazis.

Drill a well like anyone else in rural areas

Give them whiskey and they will shut up .

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