The problem that's been created at Ermineskin by Canada is first applying the LoSS standard, which looks at a very short horizon and the cheapest option for planning water infrastructure.
What engineers have identified, as recently as 2019, at Ermineskin is that there needs to be a new water treatment facility that is state of the art and provides piped water to every home in the community.
There's been a downward decline in the quality and quantity of groundwater since the 1970s, and it's something that ISC keeps throwing little band-aids at for the wells that service the community.