After a hot, dry summer, some residents in the Grand River watershed were asked to curb water use.

That didn’t come as a surprise to Courtney Skye, a Six Nations of the Grand River resident and co-director of Protect the Tract, a Haudenosaunee-led advocacy group that promotes land stewardship over the Haldimand Tract.

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“The (traditional) council has raised alarm bells about the health of the river basically every generation that we’ve lived here,” she told The Spectator.

In August, the Grand River Conservation Authority asked residents of Brant and the area to voluntarily reduce water consumption by 20 per cent.

The Level 2 condition, which means water was flowing at less than half of normal summer levels and/or it had rained 60 per cent less than usual, remains in e

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