On October 5, 2015, Trudeau promised to end boiled water advisories on Indigenous reserves in five years, on March 31, 2021. In 2015 there were 93 communities on 133 different boil water advisories. More than 300 people in the northern Ontario reserve have been forced to live under a boil water advisory since 1995. Since Trudeau's promise 100 boil water advisories have been lifted, but 60 remain in effect in 41 reserves by March 31, 2021. There have been delays in the progress of this plan. The delays first received attention in March 2020 before the pandemic hit. That means the pandemic had nothing to do with the delays. The government has spent $3 billion to persist and resolve the issue of the delays.

A plan to ban single-use plastics is causing some Indigenous communities with long-standing boil water advisories to become worried. Communities who have boil water advisories rely heavily on the option of bottled water. In 2019 58 boil water advisories are still breathing down the necks of many Indigenous communities. In Lhoosk'uz Dene Nation in B.C., they rely heavily on bottled water due to the fact their water contains heavy metals, has a yellow tint, and smells like sulfur even when boiled. In the summer of 2019 the water treatment plant in Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation in Saskatchewan burned down. This left the reserve completely dependent on bottled water until it was rebuilt six months after the fire. The government assured Indigenous communities that until are advisories are lifted no plan will be implemented. That being said it is putting another worry on the shoulders of Indigenous people.