Health Unit Funding

The Northwestern Health Unit is getting over 300 thousand dollarsfrom the provincial government to test water systems in the region.

Starting this year, the Health Unit is taking over testing smaller water systems at resorts and fly-in fishing camps from the Ministry of the Environment.

The money will help train health unit employees and pay for travel to remote parts of the Kenora and Rainy River Districts.

The Health Unit estimates it will take about three years to inspect about 12 hundred water systems.