“Is there anything good about a water advisory?”: an exploration of the consequences of drinking water advisories in an indigenous community

• Published in: BMC Public Health
• Main Authors: Kayla J. Lucier, Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace, Derek Skead, Kathleen Skead, Sarah E. Dickson-Anderson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2020
• Subjects: Drinking water; Drinking water advisories; Indigenous health; First Nations; Community-based participatory research; Traditional knowledge; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Canada; The Boil
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09825-9; https://doaj.org/article/69e38c3415d6472fb5522a8fe50f647f

Abstract Background In Ontario, Canada, Indigenous communities experience some of the province’s worst drinking water, with issues ranging from deteriorating water quality to regulatory problems and lack of support. When water is known, or suspected, to be unsafe for human consumption, communities a...