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Initiatives in Drinking Water First Nations Water Symposium 2010 Peter Ross Environmental Health Officer First Nation and Inuit Health

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Initiatives in Drinking Water

First Nations Water Symposium 2010

Peter Ross

Environmental Health Officer

First Nation and Inuit Health

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Drinking Water Quality Monitoring

Monitoring Program Objective:

To ensure the provision of clean, safe, reliable drinking water to community members

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Standard Water Quality Monitoring Template for Bacteriological & Chemical Sampling

Initiatives

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Contracting of Accredited Laboratory’s for Bacteriological and Chemical water analysis

Continued support of Colilert© System

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Establishment of a Drinking Water Quality Database

WaterTrax©

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Public Health Audit of Water Treatment Plants

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Education & Training Initiatives

Water Quality Analysis training

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Education & Training Initiatives

Annual Water Workshop

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Education & Training Initiatives

Development of a Community Based Drinking Water Monitor education program

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Drinking Water Quality Monitoring

Protocols

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Drinking Water Quality Monitoring

Protocols

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Drinking Water Quality Monitoring

Protocols

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Protocols

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Protocols

Water Advisory Tool Kit for First Nations

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Other Publications

“Safe Drinking Water is Important to Me and My Community”A Collection of First Nations Children’s Poems and Stories

Environmental Public Health in First Nations Communities, A Career That Makes a Difference!

Environmental Public Health Program Booklet

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Drinking Water Quality Monitoring

Our Future

To continue to work in partnership with your communities in building and sustaining the Drinking Water Quality Monitoring Program

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Thank you