That is what we are assuming at this point in time, that all related health issues in regard to rare diseases that are coming into the community are from the water in the area, because of the massive body of water we live beside. We still go out to the land and harvest from the land.
Back in the late eighties, we began to notice in the community that people had started bringing water from Fort Chipewyan to the bush, because they would no longer drink the water from Lake Athabasca, and from the rivers as well, because something was going on and they just weren't too sure. They don't trust the water any more, ever since then.
That's the issue that's always been coming up: the water issue. When you ask community members what is the cause of all these problems, most likely ten out of ten would tell you it's related to a water issue.