Some Cowichan Tribes homes get clean drinking water for the first time

After decades of waiting, some residents of a Vancouver Island First Nation have clean drinking water hooked up for the first time.

Members of Cowichan Tribes have lived along Indian Road since the 1940s, but have not had potable water in that time, despite being just two kilometres from the City of Duncan.

On Friday, people living in 20 of those properties finally saw that change.

“It’s been a long time coming, that’s for sure,” Cowichan Tribes member Amita Seymour told Global News.

“It was unbelievable for me; I got pretty choked up about (it). It was like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe it — we can drink water from our own tap,’” added member Bubba Qwulshemut.

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