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