Call to Action

  • Celebrate and encourage local stewardship
  • Implement personal water conservation practices such as low flow fixtures
  • Avoid swimming when algal blooms are visible and do not allow pets to swim
  • Reduce the use of pollutants such as fertilizer that impact local water bodies
  • Implement beneficial crop and grazing management practices, such as encouraging water retention and limiting drainage
  • Protect, restore, and maintain wetlands, riparian areas (shoreline vegetation), and healthy tree stands

Indigenous Communities Impacted by Advisories

There are many boil-water advisories on private well systems in the Maskwacis Cree Nations, including residents at Pigeon Lake, which are managed by the Nations. In general, boil water advisories are 2.5 times more frequent for First Nations community systems and 30 percent of First Nations communities in Canada are classified as high risk systems.

Lake and river water quality advisories impact traditional harvesting areas as algal blooms impact fish health and recreation.

Call to Action

  • Celebrate and encourage local stewardship
  • Implement personal water conservation practices such as low flow fixtures
  • Avoid swimming when algal blooms are visible and do not allow pets to swim
  • Reduce the use of pollutants such as fertilizer that impact local water bodies
  • Implement beneficial crop and grazing management practices, such as encouraging water retention and limiting drainage
  • Protect, restore, and maintain wetlands, riparian areas (shoreline vegetation), and healthy tree stands

Indigenous Communities Impacted by Advisories

There are many boil-water advisories on private well systems in the Maskwacis Cree Nations, including residents at Pigeon Lake, which are managed by the Nations. In general, boil water advisories are 2.5 times more frequent for First Nations community systems and 30 percent of First Nations communities in Canada are classified as high risk systems.

Lake and river water quality advisories impact traditional harvesting areas as algal blooms impact fish health and recreation.