The Multiple Barrier Approach to Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Communities: A Case Study

• Main Author: Finn, Stuart
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: drinking water; First Nations; indigenous traditional knowledge; multiple barrier approach; Northern Ontario; Environmental and Resource Studies; Canada; Fort William
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4957

The drinking water contamination tragedy in Walkerton, Ontario during the spring of 2000 led to many changes in water management for the province. Among these changes has been the increased use of the multiple barrier approach (MBA) to safe drinking water as the basis of water management for communi...