We get our drinking water from Lake Athabasca. Our intake valve is situated down by Monument Hill. It comes out from the Athabasca River into Lake Athabasca, which in turn goes downstream from there, where it passes through the community of Fort Chipewyan. We get our drinking water directly from Lake Athabasca.
The testing that's done is being conducted by the municipality. They govern the water. It's municipally regulated. They send it out on a daily basis to certain labs in the area, probably U of A or other labs. They just look for basic contaminants like E. coli or stuff like that, but they don't conduct thorough investigations into the source, so the community always raises the issue that maybe it's time to move the intake valve from Lake Athabasca somewhere instream or to an inland lake to provide safe drinking water for the community.
Only then would they feel secure, but at this point in time they just don't feel secure about it. We have no choice but to drink the water from the tap. A bottle of water is $3. That's just 750 millilitres of water, not even one litre, but we pay $3 for that.