One of Saskatchewan’s most far-flung settlements is inching closer to clean drinking water. Uranium City residents hope the promised improvements to the community’s water treatment plant are closer to reality, but progress is slow, noted Dean Classen, who is chair of the northern settlement’s board. In 2001, the provincial Water Security Agency handed a precautionary drinking water advisory to the small community near the Northwest Territories border. An emergency boil water advisory has been in place since 2015.