Elder Dean Morgan check out the new water treatment facility.
After years of on-and-off boil water advisories and more than four decades fighting for it, members of St'uxwtéws have access to clean water.For most of Dean Morgan's 67-year life, he wasn't able to drink clean water in his home.Sometimes, he would go to the creek near his home on IR #1 of St'uxwtéws to grab jugs of water because it was cleaner and safer than the water he was able to get from his taps.
This summer, the nation was able to hook up the final two of four water treatment plants needed to ensure all three of its reserves have clean, safe drinking water.Kukpi7 Frank Antoine says it's advocacy from the whole community that led to these new facilities. "That was to produce clean, safe drinking water for the community, and this took a partnership with not just local government, but also the federal government."
Majeed Mohsini has spent years studying water innovation in his role as a professor at the University of British Columbia department of chemical and biological engineering.
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