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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News The owners of Nation to Nation Water don\u2019t plan on waiting for the federal government to make good on its more than decade-old promise to end drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves. The majority Indigenous-owned company uses Japanese technology to treat residential, municipal, commercial and industrial water. \u201c\u200b\u200bWe are Nation to Nation Water, because we\u2019re working between both Canada and internationally, as well as working within nations across Canada and looking at how we incorporate those relationships together,\u201d co-founder and CEO Patrick Dinsdale told Alberta Native News from his company\u2019s display at the Forward Summit on Tsuut\u2019ina Nation. Dinsdale said that his \u201cvery, very new\u201d company incorporated in December 2025, but that its ambitions are \u201cmulti-generational.\u201d \u201cWhat we really… <\/p>\n

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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News The owners of Nation to Nation Water don\u2019t plan on waiting for the federal government to make good on its more than decade-old promise to end drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves. The majority Indigenous-owned company uses Japanese technology to treat residential, municipal, commercial and industrial water. \u201c\u200b\u200bWe are Nation to Nation Water, because we\u2019re working between both Canada and internationally, as well as working within nations across Canada and looking at how we incorporate those relationships together,\u201d co-founder and CEO Patrick Dinsdale told Alberta Native News from his company\u2019s display at the Forward Summit on Tsuut\u2019ina Nation. Dinsdale said that his \u201cvery, very new\u201d company incorporated in December 2025, but that its ambitions are \u201cmulti-generational.\u201d \u201cWhat we really... <\/p>\n

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