May 7, 2018
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Life In Canada Without Clean Water
Canada has 20 per cent of the world's freshwater and yet some Indigenous communities across the country have not had clean drinking water for decades.
Latifa Abdin
Producer, COMMONS

Canada has 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater and yet some Indigenous communities have not had access to clean drinking water for decades.

In this episode, we speak to Rachel Arsenault a Master’s student at Laurentian University in the Masters of Indigenous Relations program who works with Decolonizing Water an Indigenous-led community-based water monitoring initiative. We also speak with Samantha Redsky of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation .

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