Reserves need new strategy
Dec 5, 2011 BY Jordon Cooper, Star Phoenix
In case you missed it, public health in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat has deteriorated as families are living in shantytown conditions and are without running water, electricity, sewage or heat. A month ago its chief declared a state of emergency, which was ignored until she held a news conference in Toronto. Finally, the media - and then the politicians - started to pay attention.
It isn't just Attawapiskat that has serious problems.
More than 150 First Nations across Canada are under boil-water advisories.
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It isn't just Attawapiskat that has serious problems.
More than 150 First Nations across Canada are under boil-water advisories.
Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/Reserves+need+strategy/5810756/story.html#ixzz1fhdPIbdz
Clean running water still a luxury on many native reserves
NOV 30, 2011 BY Kazi Stastna, CBC NEWS
For most Canadians, an unlimited supply of clean water flowing freely from a tap and imperceptibly whisking away their waste at the simple push of a lever is a given; for many First Nations, it's a luxury their communities can't afford.
"We have water fountains in the community store; for sewage, we still use outdoor washrooms," said Ian Knott, a band councillor who oversees water and sewer projects for theWasagamack First Nation in northern Manitoba.
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"We have water fountains in the community store; for sewage, we still use outdoor washrooms," said Ian Knott, a band councillor who oversees water and sewer projects for theWasagamack First Nation in northern Manitoba.
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Conservatives back Liberal motion on fixing First Nations water, won't commit to increased funding
NOV 17, 2011 BY APTN NEWS
OTTAWA–The Conservative government agreed Thursday to immediately provide clean running water to all First Nations communities across the country, but stopped short of promising any major funding to fix the dire situation faced by many reserves.
The Conservatives said they would support a Liberal party motion introduced in the House of Commons Thursday calling on the government “to address on an urgent basis the needs of those First Nations communities whose members have no access to clean, running water in their homes.”
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The Conservatives said they would support a Liberal party motion introduced in the House of Commons Thursday calling on the government “to address on an urgent basis the needs of those First Nations communities whose members have no access to clean, running water in their homes.”
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Sewer Superhero Troubleshooters Keep Aging Plants Operating
By: Helen Fallding
From the Winnipeg Free Press 15/11/2010
FISHER RIVER -- At midnight on a bitter Manitoba winter night when the sewage plant on a remote First Nation breaks down, who you gonna call?
Troubleshooter Ken Mattes.
He has installed a water plant for the Canadian Forces in Egypt and built warm flush toilets for soldiers cleaning up radioactive debris from a Soviet satellite that crashed in the Arctic.
"We had running water in a week."
Now retired from the military, Mattes, 64, has turned his attention from war zones to the challenges of his final frontier -- supplying clean water on First Nations reserves.
The superhero of water and sewer services doesn't wear a cape, but if you sign up for his optimistic band of trainees, he'll give you a really nice T-shirt.
Winnipegger Mattes is president of the national Circuit Rider Trainers Professional Association, named after the itinerant preachers who used to travel on horseback to minister to settlers.
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No Running Water
A special investigation by Winnipeg Free Press ass't City Editor Helen Fallding and photojournalist Joe Bryksa, partially funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Thousands of Island Lake residents still haul their drinking water in pails from a community tap and rely on outhouses or latrine buckets that some dump on the ground close to home. What will it take for these Manitobans to secure what the United Nations recognizes as an essential human right to safe water and sanitation?
To watch an informative video and read related articles click here.
FISHER RIVER -- At midnight on a bitter Manitoba winter night when the sewage plant on a remote First Nation breaks down, who you gonna call?
Troubleshooter Ken Mattes.
He has installed a water plant for the Canadian Forces in Egypt and built warm flush toilets for soldiers cleaning up radioactive debris from a Soviet satellite that crashed in the Arctic.
"We had running water in a week."
Now retired from the military, Mattes, 64, has turned his attention from war zones to the challenges of his final frontier -- supplying clean water on First Nations reserves.
The superhero of water and sewer services doesn't wear a cape, but if you sign up for his optimistic band of trainees, he'll give you a really nice T-shirt.
Winnipegger Mattes is president of the national Circuit Rider Trainers Professional Association, named after the itinerant preachers who used to travel on horseback to minister to settlers.
Click here for the full story.
No Running Water
A special investigation by Winnipeg Free Press ass't City Editor Helen Fallding and photojournalist Joe Bryksa, partially funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Thousands of Island Lake residents still haul their drinking water in pails from a community tap and rely on outhouses or latrine buckets that some dump on the ground close to home. What will it take for these Manitobans to secure what the United Nations recognizes as an essential human right to safe water and sanitation?
To watch an informative video and read related articles click here.
