Always 10 days late for the debate, but anyways here I go.

On my reserve in BC our water(and wastewater)  treatment operators belong to the same provincial certification organization, the Environmental Operators Certification Program (EOCP), that any other operator from any community in BC would belong to. And to maintain their standing, each operator is required to accumulate a certain level of training credits over two year periods for the duration of their EOCP membership. Our operator was one of two First Nation Level III Water Distribution operators in all of BC, and his water is as good as it gets.

Bad water treatment isn't a First Nation thing; it's a poverty thing, it's a traumatized community thing, it's a predatory consultant thing.  It's so many things that building a new multi-million plant couldn't solve all the issues plaguing First Nations water