Dangerous to drink water?
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PAOV — Did you know the government regulates water quality for off-reserve communities in Canada, but has no binding regulations for water on First Nations reserves? Meanwhile the Great Lakes Basin is full of toxins that make water unhealthy and dangerous to consume for indigenous communities. You can help change this by singing Ally’s petition below.
Petitioning Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau: Clean water for First Nations drinking form the Great Lakes basin.
Petition by Ally Pentz
Markham, Canada
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The Great Lakes contain 18 percent of the world’s fresh surface water. In Ontario, they are a large, greatly-depended upon resource for residents who are connected to this particular water source. However, the Great Lakes Basin is full of toxins and pollutants that contaminate the water & make it unhealthy and dangerous to consume.
It is estimated that more than 90 billion litres of the waste that is dumped into the Great Lakes each year is untreated sewage. That is the equivalent of dumping more than 100 Olympic swimming pools of raw sewage into the Great Lakes each day!
This basin drains into the Great Lakes water supply, which is designated for the First Nations reserves located on the coast.
Although Canada prides itself as a highly developed, first-world nation, the lack of Federal government action towards this water crisis clearly exhibits the environmental discrimination and injustice towards Indigenous people in Canada.
The government regulates water quality for off-reserve communities, but has no binding regulations for water on First Nations reserves. Collectively, we can raise awareness and support to push for a social change!
It is a fundamental human right to have clean, safe drinking water, and is unacceptable that our government has failed to provide this to First Nation communities for decades.
Please sign this petition to push our government to make it legally binding to bring improvements for the conditions that First Nations live in. Every signature is one step closer to clean water.
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