"June 2016"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Amanda Klasing, senior researcher in the Women<U+0019>s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch"--Page 88. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Acknowledgments. Methodology -- First Nations in the Report: Batchewana First Nation -- Grassy Narrows (Asubpeeschoseewagunk) First Nation -- Neskantaga First Nation -- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation -- Six Nations of the Grand River -- IV. Water and Sanitation Conditions on First Nations Reserves: Water Advisories on Ontario's First Nations Reserves -- Past Government Responses to Water and Sanitation Problems -- II. Impact of Poor Water and Sanitation Conditions: Impacts on Health and Hygiene -- Impacts on At-Risk Populations -- Impacts on Caregivers -- Impacts on Lower-Income Families -- Impact on Cultural Life -- Impact on Housing -- III. Barriers to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation on First Nations Reserves: Absence of a Regulatory Framework -- Funds for Water and Wastewater Systems -- Backlog of First Nations Seeking Capital Investment -- Private Household Wells, Cisterns, and Septic Systems -- Source Water Problems -- IV. International Legal Obligations: Right to Water -- Right to Sanitation -- Right to Health -- Right to Housing -- Right to Nondiscrimination -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"The report, 'Make It Safe: Canada's Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis,' documents the impacts of serious and prolonged drinking water and sanitation problems for thousands of indigenous people--known as "First Nations"--living on reserves. It assesses why there are problems with safe water and sanitation on reserves, including a lack of binding water quality regulations, erratic and insufficient funding, faulty or sub-standard infrastructure, and degraded source waters. The federal government's own audits over two decades show a pattern of overpromising and underperforming on water and sanitation for reserves"--Publisher's description.
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