Ochiichagwe’babigo’ining Ojibway Nation (Dalles) recently won the Water Taste Challenge at the 57th Annual Northwestern Ontario Water and Wastewater Conference in Thunder Bay.
“This is the first time ever First Nations have been entered, and we won,” said Phil Tangie, technical services officer with Bimose Tribal Council. “Isn’t that amazing.”
Wabauskang also took third place in the Water Taste Challenge while Eagle Lake finished in fifth place.
“We were amazed to see our First Nations had three in the top five and two in the top three,” said Paul Otis, technical services officer with Bimose Tribal Council in an e-mail message.
“It was a pleasant surprise to see the operator for Kingfisher Lake with water to enter into the challenge too.”
While two other Bimose Tribal Council communities, Iskatewizagegaan (Shoal Lake #39) and Wabigoon Lake, also entered the competition, three other Bimose Tribal Council communities could not enter because their water was not potable.
Past Water Taste Challenge winners included Vermilion Bay, Ear Falls, Marathon, Thunder Bay and Terrace Bay.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
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