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.

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.😡

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Try asking the reverse question: "How come most descendents of European settlers DO have clean drinking water today?" Could it be that 150+ years of research and careful planning, hard work, and the paying of taxes have a great deal to do with it?

That water is darker than the prime ministers hallowe’en make-up

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?

does anyone question where all the money goes that flows up to reserves from the taxpayers? i wonder how after billions of dollars funding to the reserves, do the people on the reserves still experience these problems. What are the band offices of these reserves doing with the money? conferences in Vegas? PM Harper had a financial accountibility set up for bands, but Trudeau eliminated it. Too bad. i feel bad for the people living on the reserves.

no ones actually watching this for fun are they?

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 .