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Many towns in Newfoundland and Labrador have issues with disinfection byproducts created by chlorination. (Shutterstock)

Finding a fix for Newfoundland’s troubled drinking water

Steven Liss, Toronto Metropolitan University

Chlorine has been used to disinfect drinking water for more than a hundred years. But new alternatives may be safer.
Demonstrators at a 2010 Toronto rally protesting the mercury contamination of the Wabigoon-English waterway in northwestern Ontario carry long blue banners meant to represent a river. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young)

Declaring a water crisis over isn’t the end of the ordeal

Steven Liss, Toronto Metropolitan University; Anna Majury, Queen's University, Ontario, and Haley Sanderson, Queen's University, Ontario

The declared end of Flint, Mich., contaminated water crisis echoes similar claims worldwide. Evidence shows victims of past and ongoing water crises, especially Indigenous people, continue to suffer.

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