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Hunter Edison, Water First Graduate, on life post-graduation

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Hunter Edison, Water First Graduate, on life post-graduation

Hunter Edison, Water First Graduate, on life post graduation

Drinking Water Internship Program

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“That my people are safe, they have clean drinking water, and they can turn their tap on every morning and have water. That’s my biggest accomplishment at the end of the day; making sure that my people are safe.”

Hunter Edison is from Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation in Northwestern Ontario. He is a graduate of the Drinking Water Internship Program with Bimose Tribal Council and is now employed as the lead operator at his community’s water treatment plant.

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Drinking water advisory statistics are for federally maintained systems on First Nations reserve lands only. These numbers do not include private systems or systems in Inuit communities.

Drinking water advisories include short-term (under 1 year) and long-term (more than 1 year) boil water advisories, do not consume advisories, and do not use advisories for First Nation communities in Canada.

Calculating the number of drinking water advisories is a complex process. Water First relies on information from several different sources. 

Sources: www.watertoday.ca, www.sac-isc.gc.ca, www.fnha.ca.

Last Updated: July 2026