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Native America Calling: Fixing Passamaquoddy’s drinking water problem
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
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Fixing Passamaquoddy’s drinking water problem
Some residents of the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation have either hauled water or used bottled water for years, even decades.

The tribe’s water source is a lake that members say is unsafe despite tests show that it is largely within federal limits.

Tribal leaders say a long-term solution requires a change to a 1980 law that limits the tribe’s ability to acquire land where the tribe could establish wells.

Note: Thumbnail photo of Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation in Maine by Ken Gallagher

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