Publication Repository: The provision of drinking water in First Nations communities and Ontario municipalities: Insight into the emergence of water sharing arrangements

It includes 419 communities: 118 First Nations communities and 301 municipalities. It identifies communities that were supplied in whole or in part through water sharing arrangements (WSAs) during the study period.

And it includes a number of key community characteristics: northerness, elevation, population density, remoteness, and regional wealth. This data set was gathered for the purpose of exploring factors influencing local communities in Ontario - First Nations and municipalities - to participate in WSAs. Specifically, in our paper we explore whether First Nations communities – many of which suffer persistently poor drinking water conditions – are less likely to be engaged in WSAs than municipalities.