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I mean Canada had a bunch of people die from unsafe drinking water not that long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak



The article is very in-depth and shows a long list of failures, well into the disaster response. But it was also 22 years ago.


Here are all the current water quality notices in Canada right now.

There are dozens of them.

http://www.watertoday.ca/textm.asp


This only suggests that quality control and warning system are working. The 2000 case is infamous because both didn't work and caused deaths and permanent injury.




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