This larger data source is a text file containing JSON format records of all Canadian First Nations communities and is many thousands of records. While the web page also included a link to download the map data, after a bit of web page scraping and inspection, I learned that the downloadable map data was created by web page Javascript from another larger data source referenced in the map page code.
The code to retrieve and transform the data to create that web page are in my Github repository.įinding the data I needed only took a few minutes of Google search from an Indigenous Services Canada website that mapped the water advisories by counts of advisories by FN community, project status, advisory dates, and project type. TLDR the results can be seen on a Github.io hosted page. So I wanted to find some data to learn the actual status for myself. However there was poor communication about the actual number and status of the advisory projects. The opposition criticized them for not having achieved that goal to-date. The current government had made big promises to fix all of the advisories in 2015. The First Nation drinking water advisories were a big part of the 2021 Canadian federal election campaigns. This includes projects to build or renew drinking water infrastructure in these communities. The Government of Canada is working with Canadian First Nations communities to end long-term drinking water advisories which have been in effect for more than 12 months since November 2015.