Countless reports show water is undrinkable in many Indigenous communities. Why has nothing changed?
- Written by: Bradley J. Moggridge, Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science, University of Canberra
Tap water in more than 500 remote Indigenous communities isn’t regularly tested and often isn’t safe to drink, according to a water industry report released last week. In some communities, drinking water contained unacceptable levels of uranium, arsenic, fluoride and nitrate.
While these findings are dire, they aren’t news to us....
