Generally, residents of the US and Canada have access to safe and secure drinking water. However, this hasn’t always been the case as history has proven. Venture back to May 2000 when the tragic water-borne disease outbreak occurred in Walkerton, ON — one of the world’s largest outbreaks of E.coli. Bacterial contamination of municipal water in Walkerton was the most severe public health disaster in Canadian history. A tragedy that resulted in 7 deaths and 2300 ill cases. Fast forward a few years to 2014 when the Flint water crisis began. A year when the city of Flint, Michigan, changed its water source from Lake Huron and Detroit River to the Flint River. As a result, there was an influx of lead leaking into the water supply, exposing 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels. Included in these rates were up to 12,000 children who risked long-term effects from lead poisoning. During this time, an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease spread the county that killed 12 individuals and left...