The Team

Dr. Hans Peterson - Founder of SDWT

The Team

Dr. Hans Peterson - Founder of SDWT

Sweet water

December 23, 2020

Sweet water

Nicole Hancock

December 23, 2020

Sweet water

Nicole Hancock

December 23, 2020

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Tagged: water, sustains us, flows between us, flows within us, replenishes us, giver of all life, life will perish, without clean water, human being, animal, plant, Dawn Martin-Hill, Indigenous Studies program, Hamilton's McMaster University, Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, southwest of Hamilton, '60s Scoop, state-of-the-art water treatment plant, access to clean water, northern communities, operate them full time, ensure people are running the plants correctly, Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, Ojibway band, Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, water-treatment plant, qualified man from the community, Fred Dubeau, kept it from shutting down, Chief Greg Nadjiwon, 30 years old, replacement parts are expensive, hard to find, plant is often shut down for maintenance, making water quality unreliable, find parts, extremely difficult, astronomical price, antiques, municipal water treatment, E. coli, contaminated the drinking water, Walkerton, Ontario, Clean Water Act, protect its drinking water, federal side, only guidelines, has to change, breakdowns similar to Walkerton's, several First Nations, nothing gets done, federal laws, First Nations, protect drinking water, vulnerable, water-borne ilnesses, Gary Vidal, federal Conservative Indigenous Services critic, people living on reserves, need training to manage water treatment, when boil-water advisories are lifted, no federal laws, require such education, put money into capital projects, trained to operate, treatment plants, end up with long-term drinking water advisories, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, department, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, work left to do, longer-term commitment to operation and maintenance, state-of-the-art, people who work there, highly trained, high degree of education in chemistry and math, people living on reserves will be trained, experts from elsewhere will be hired, need, Lac Seul First Nation, northwestern Ontario, Ottawa ensured local people were trained to operate, reserve's treatment plant, hope in the younger generation, social media, other truths and realities, Canadians, non-Indigenous kids, shocked, Indigenous history, school, smart, Unist'ot'en people, Wet'suwet'en territory, British Columbia, way of life, pristine Morice River, Wedzin Kwah, construction began, Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, direct threat, sweet water, running water

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