Here in Canada, you can get clean drinking water simply by turning on a tap. Unless you live in one of the many First Nations communities that are subject to long-term drinking water advisories. In which case, you have to boil the water first before you can use it. Or you have to use bottled water for everything, including brushing your teeth or cooking with.

How is it that in a first-world country like Canada, we still have communities of people who don’t have access to clean drinking water?

Joining me to help better understand what’s going on here, is Ken Coates. He is a man with many titles, but one of them is that he is a distinguished fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute where he co-authored a paper called The Water Conundrum and Indigenous Communities in Canada.

Links:

• The Water Conundrum and Indigenous Communities in Canada
• Ken Coates

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