Why some First Nations reserves don't have clean drinking water

Making land acknowledgments with no intent to do the right thing. If it looks like hypocrisy, swims like hypocrisy, and quacks like hypocrisy, then it probably is hypocrisy.

That last line. "They never thought we would still be here..." Shivers.

I live in Jamaica Why am I watching this?

Some of these comments are disgraceful, and so is the government’s response to the indigenous water crisis.

Laws and regulations about potable water are provincial based on federal government research. A water system in Ontario that falls under provincial jurisdiction must comply with a large number of laws & regulation including the Safe Drinking Water Act and regulations 170/03 & 169/03 among many others. First Nations reserves fall under federal regulations which are all but no existent. The previous Conservative government put in place Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act but did not get around to writing regulations; the current government is ignoring it. Most bands are complying with provincial regulations on a voluntary basis including the licensing of operators. Provinces also have a robust oversight mechanisms again lacking in First Nations. Want First Nations to have the same standards as the rest of us? Put federal property under provincial jurisdiction for water & wastewater.

I was in Alberta a few years ago and visited a reserve, this man was carrying well water that was black, I thought it was Coca Cola but it was water. The same man told me he has cancer too. The gov is literally letting them die.😡

I live in a relatively big canadian town and still would never drink the disgusting water out of the tap. We all have to split on a filter to actually stomach it, would be even worse if we had to boil it everytime as well. And it's not like things like bottled water or filters are cheap on reservations up north. $$$$

Are these budgets public information? We the citizens need to look them over and speak out about how they can be improved.

How about asking why most reserves don't have a water and sewer plant like the rest of Canada? Let's start there.

Most northern Ontario towns dont even safe clean drinking water a trip to the sault or tbay and drinking out of the tap feels like we've truly made it

what about rainwater roof collectors made from recycled plastic and installing composting toilets?

I'm confused. I live in a small community of 600 in the Kooteney's. So our community decided to upgrade our water supply about 10 years ago, we literally had a wooden pipe 5 km long as the "water main" . So we had a town hall meeting. Agreed upon a resolution to form a corporation responsible for our community water. Elected water board members. Sought government funding. The corporation borrowed money and built a water purification, and pumping facility and ran new underground lines to every property . Nobody was allowed to "opt out" of this service, besides digging and servicing your own well, which is way more expensive than the $400 per year, per household. At least one property was seized by the corporation for non-payment of water services and auctioned off to the highest bidder. But hey, I have clean water, and our community did it all by ourselves. So, whats the problem ?

Clean water for all first nation people this is Canada doing this

So why ? If your community is away from cities and their treatment plants then your going to have to use wells ?

I am a rural Canadian I have a water cistern and pay to have a truck haul it in ,all my nieghbors do the same .

You should go to a reserve and see how they are running them.. The media doesn't show the whole picture.

The information is framed within the argument.

Why?

This breaks my heart beyond beliefs

its funny the chief of six nations reserve has millions of dollars owns grand river tobacco and is suspected of organized crime yet theres "no money to run a water treatment plant" . did the chiefs have private fortunes in the 1800's too?