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“We Don’t Drink the Water Here”: The Reproduction of Undrinkable Water for First Nations in Canada

dc.contributor.authorBaijius, Warrick
dc.contributor.authorPatrick, Robert J.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-30T15:46:12Z
dc.date.available2023-06-30T15:46:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)en_US
dc.description.abstractFirst Nation communities in Canada are disproportionately plagued by undrinkable water and insufficient household sanitation. In addition, water resource management in First Nation communities has long been a technocratic and scientific mission controlled by state-led authorities. There has been limited engagement of First Nations in decision-making around water management and water governance. As such, problems associated with access to drinkable water and household sanitation are commonly positioned as hydrological or environmental problems (flood or drought) to be fixed by technical and engineering solutions. This apolitical reading has been criticized for not addressing the root cause of the First Nation water problem, but instead, of reproducing it. In this paper, an approach using political ecology will tease out key factors contributing to the current water problem in many First Nation communities. Using case study research set in source water protection planning, this paper explains how persistent colonial practices of the state continue to reproduce undrinkable water and insufficient household sanitation. Solutions to this ‘water problem’ require greater attention to First Nations water governance capacity and structures.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCanadian Pacific Railway Partnership Program in Aboriginal Community Developmenten_US
dc.description.versionPeer Revieweden_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/w11051079
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/14753
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectfirst nationsen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectpolitical ecologyen_US
dc.subjectcolonizationen_US
dc.subjectwater politicsen_US
dc.title“We Don’t Drink the Water Here”: The Reproduction of Undrinkable Water for First Nations in Canadaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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