Winnipeg Shoal Lake #40

Winnipeg is poised to sign a deal with a Shoal Lake-area First Nation that could see the community receive a water treatment plant of its own.

For the past 90 years, Winnipeg has obtained its drinking water from a small body of water called Indian Bay, which is part of Shoal Lake on the Manitoba-Ontario border.

Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz says the agreement is a follow-up to a deal signed between the two sides back in 1989.

Katz says ideally, Shoal Lake #40 should be able to get its own water treatment facility out of the agreement.