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Drinking Water Graduate Speaks to Youth to Envision Future Water Science Careers

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Drinking Water Graduate Speaks to Youth to Envision Future Water Science Careers

Water First Internship Graduate Eric Vautor on his experience in the program

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Since piloting the Drinking Water Internship with 7 First Nations communities of Manitoulin Island in 2018, our relationship with the communities continues and deepens as we continue to return to deliver workshops in the schools. In this video one of the graduates of that first Internship, Eric Vautour, sets the stage to fuel and inspire Indigenous youth to envision themselves in a future Water Science career.

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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