Drinking Water in Northern Canadian Indigenous Communities

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium UN New York 2019

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Spicer, Neal

• Water is an essential part of life and viable sources of clean and drinkable water is a challenge for many people across the planet. Unfortunately, this challenge exists for many Indigenous communities across Canada as seen by a series of articles, investigations and academic literature that has appeared over the last 20 years. This research examines how members of two Dene First Nation Communities in Northern Canada perceive the degree of safety and security of their sources of drinking water, both within their homes and natural sources of water.

• Date created

  2019-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • drinking water security, drinking water safety, indigenous communities, northern canada
  • Dene Tha First Nation, nothern Alberta; K’atl’odeeche First Nations (KFN), Northwest Territories, Canada

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-c7zt-rp83

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International