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The clean water is thanks in part to new infrastructure and a new water source, won after three decades of fighting for access to clean drinking water, Charles says. Tap water is now sourced from Metro Vancouver and travels through 12 kilometres of new pipes and three pump stations to reach the community’s 31 homes and six administrative buildings.
The struggle for water started in 1991 when the community’s water distribution system aged out and needed to be replaced, Charles says.
In the ’90s the nation purchased water from the privately owned White Rock Utilities. The first drinking water advisory was issued in 1996. In October 2005, the nation was placed on a permanent boil water advisory when its water found E. coli and total coliforms, which Canada measures to test if water is drinkable, exceeded allowable levels.
Michelle Gamage is a journalist and photographer based in Vancouver with an environmental beat. You can find her on Twitter @Michelle Gamage. SHARES Half the Fraser River’s juvenile Chinook salmon stay in the estuary for an average of six weeks when transitioning from fresh to salt water, but that habitat is fast shrinking.
Photo by Michael O. Snyder, courtesy of Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
The southern coastline of mainland British Columbia is a world of mud flats, tangles of reeds and boggy marsh that fills and empties with the tides. The silty, often goopy waters may, at first, seem a pale comparison to the dramatic coastline to the north, where crashing waves meet rocky shores and walls of ancient pines but there’s more to this marsh than meets the eye.