As many as one in three First Nation reserves in Canada have been found to lack safe water.
water quality
Keepers of the Water: A wake-up call from the North
I was very fortunate to participate in the Keepers of the Water conference in Wollaston Lake, northern Saskatchewan, in mid-August. It was my first time to this remote community, which can only be reached by barge/boat or airplane as there are no roads that go directly there. People say the water there is clean enough to drink right out of the lake, which I saw someone doing. The lake, one of Saskatchewan's largest, certainly looked beautiful, though I hesitated to drink from it like the locals.
Access to water on Canada's reserves
Fresh water. Canada has more of it than almost any other country on Earth. According to the United Nations Development Program, over 99.8 per cent of Canadians have access to pure drinking water and safe sanitation.
But try telling that to Mike Gull. "Our water smells like raw sewage right now," says Gull, head of the water treatment program at Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario. "It's very septic. There's lots of bad stuff in here, lots of dead organic matter."
Chief Connie Gray-McKay of Mishkeegogamang First Nation, 500 km northwest of Thunder Bay, has similar concerns. "Our water smells like iron and magnesium. People have allergic reactions to it, and their laundry turns yellow."
Fracking and its impact on groundwater: Lessons from Alberta
Mar 21 2012 - 7:00pm
Mar 21 2012 - 9:00pm
Location
Telus Building, Room 134, University of Alberta
Corner of 111 Street and 87 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7Canada
Phone:
780-430-0608
53° 31' 22.4904" N, 113° 31' 4.1988" W
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Presented by the Council of Canadians Edmonton Chapter, co-sponsored by the Parkland Institute.
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Water forum
Mar 20 2010 - 9:30am
Mar 20 2010 - 5:30pm
Location
Toronto Metro Hall
55 John Street Room 308/309
Toronto, ON M5V 3C6Canada
43° 38' 44.2068" N, 79° 23' 21.5124" W
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Council of Canadians
Toronto Chapter Water Forum 2010
Doors open at 9:30am
Finishes at 5:30pm
Free! Everyone is welcome.
Speakers Include:
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Hamilton Bay Area Restoration Council
Centre for the Environment
Wellington Water Watchers
Oak Ridges Moraine Foundation
Hamilton Conserver Society
Citizens for a Safe Environment
STORM Coalition
Polaris Foundation
Great Lakes United
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Tracking the Tar Sands: A Tri-City Youth Tour
Aug 20 2009 - 11:50am
Aug 22 2009 - 11:50am
Location
Sarnia, ON
Canada
Phone:
(866) 346-6602 ext. 106
Fax:
(613) 237-3359
42° 58' 43.8636" N, 82° 24' 14.2056" W
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Who: YOU
What: Tracking the Tar Sands: A Tri-City Youth Tour—An educational youth tour to Sarnia, Detroit and Windsor that highlights global warming, water depletion, land degradation, energy insecurity, Aboriginal injustices and social damages from tar sands development. You will have the opportunity to meet with community leaders and youth from across Canada and Detroit who are ready to make a difference now and for the future.
When: August 20 to 22, 2009
Where: Starting in Toronto on August 20th and traveling to Sarnia, Detroit and Windsor. Returning to Toronto the evening of August 22.
Contact name:
Iona Frost
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