Bottled Water To Brush Teeth

First Nations utilities are so inadequate more than a third of Indigenous people on-reserve use bottled water to brush their teeth, says a report by Indigenous Services Minister Patricia Hajdu’s department. Cabinet had promised to eliminate all boiled water advisories by 2021: “One in five judge the water to be less safe to drink than it was five years ago.”

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