WATER IS A HUMAN RIGHT

#4: U. - with a right comes a responsibility 

The people who live in the Island Lakes area and other remote communities had 'industrialization' imposed upon them.  Our lands are polluted and contaminated due to colonization and industrial activities that were never asked to be brought to Turtle Island.

Canada beleives themselves to be on the fore front of human rights and believes they are a leader within the advancement of human rights. Try to be a leader in Advancement with human rights within your own country, because all First Nations Communities have a the right to water as Canadians. Maybe we as First Nations People need to start making those commercials as seen on T.V, advocating for clean water resources, maybe then we'll be recognized.
It is far too often First Nations People suffer due to the Provincial and National leaders not recognizing our Treaties within the Act, not to mention our rights as human beings. Yeah thats right we are people too CANADA! Yet as FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE and GRASS ROOTS PEOPLE they didn't hesitate to bring us colonialization, cultural genocide(through residential schools) and now they can't even be bothered to provide us with clean water within some of our Northern Communities. Yet when a natural disaster strikes Canada is usually the first to react trying to set a presedent, for our so called international face plate of being politicaly correct and being a global leader. So what does that say to First Nations people, it says to me we are and always will be a low prioirity on the list.
We were here long before they destroyed our land, poluted our water, killed our buffalo, and built hydro dams affecting our traditioal lands water supply. Look at the pollution and negativity they caused us. Look at our losses. It is their fault our water is like this, fix it CANADA fix it! Everyone sees where the accountability lies.
But it will probably come down to OUR Chiefs OUR Leaders to do justice for us.

THIS IS OUR LAND
THIS IS OUR WATER
THIS IS OUR RIGHT

#6: R.G. 2010 - THIS IS OUR LAND, THIS IS OUR WATER, THIS IS OUR RIGHT 

Hmmm... that's all well and good but how does it benefit you to complain about your problems on a scarcely visited website? What happened, happened. Its in the past and there is nothing you can do about it now, so instead of posting meaningless paragraphs of text go out and do something productive to solve the problem. In the time it took you to compose this message you probably could have planned a trip to visit a university where you could receive an education. Had you taken this trip and decided you liked the school, then you could have applied for entry and begun working towards a degree in engineering with a focus on freshwater resources, perhaps even achieved a master's or a doctorate. Once you received the degree, you could bring your knowledge and qualifications back to the community and use it to help improve the situation. Ah, but wait. Why am I speaking in past tense? This is still possible. So stop complaining about your situation and go out and do something about it yourself, because I hate to be the one to tell you this but the government is not going to solve your problems for you. They simply don't care.

#8: Cecilia Dvorchak - show them how 

Well for your information most the terrain up there is rock so they can't "dig a hole" and most of the homes up there probably still have out houses, just a F.Y.I

We can afford to pay $ 737,000 per soldier per year to help people in Afghanistan but we can't afford to provide clean drinking water and sewage services to our own people ?  This is one more  clear example of a national injustice.  Shame on us.

February 23, 2011

Canadian corporals eligible for Afghan training mission (– costs $ 737,000 per soldier per year)
By MERCEDES STEPHENSON, Parliamentary Bureau
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/02/23/17383716.html

Canada has based rotations of up to 3,000 soldiers at a time out of Kandahar in the Taliban-infested southern part of Afghanistan. From there, Canadians have been mounting combat operations for nearly a decade, suffering more than 150 killed and hundreds more wounded.
Now, Canada will move its main base to the country’s capital, Kabul – still a dangerous place, but less so than Kandahar.

There, about 950 military trainers and support personnel will be based until 2014 to help train the Afghan National Army. Officials have said the training mission is likely to cost $700 million a year.

Note : is the correct figure $700 million / 950 soldiers = $ 737,000 per soldier per year?

1 Litre of urine provides 1kW of Electricity: http://www.watersanitationhygiene.org/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=371&t=864

Bio Gas powered vehicles:http://www.watersanitationhygiene.org/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=368&t=877&start=0

#1: Mark Nabess - Water is a human right.

I though Celine Dion's penis was Canada's filthy little secret!

I have no concern drinking tap water when I am in the city of Thompson but as soon as I cross that reservation line, drinking the water becomes a concern. How safe is this? *slides a glass of tap water from my First Nation to all those sceptics,indifferent people, and decision makers.
As it is right now - those who have the means and transportation can provide themselves drinking water from outside of the community. Why do people have to leave their First Nations community to access safe drinking water, or purchase bottled water?
How can we get some kind of filtering happening for the people living in third world conditions in a first world country? In the past, people have tried asking for those Life Straws for First nations communities - but their response was that they only provide these Life Straws to third world countries ... and Canada is a first world country. Catch 22.
Doing things like raising awareness (i.e this petition) can create social pressure and educate people on First Nations water issues. We should also be looking at solutions on how we can provide ourselves clean drinking water with the limited financial resources we have. (ironic how Manitoba Hydro and the Federal Government see our water as a precious resource but cannot in turn provide clean drinking water for the First Nations people whose resources they are consistently after for Canada's economic growth as a first world country).