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First Nations Right To Water
Recent studies shown that an estimation of 20,000 First Nations people are living on reserves across Canada that has no access to running water or sewage. About 110 to 130 First Nations are under boil water advisories because the municipal water is not safe to drink [ The Right to Water. (n. d)] . The reason being, most people are getting affected by the use of dirty water, which puts them under the bust of boiling the water. Regarding this issue, the government hasn’t made an act on this issue. Also, an expert panel was booked by the federal government concluded that drinking water problems in First Nations communities were primarily the result of Federal underfunding [The Rights to Water. (n.d)]. Moreover, this was made to encourage the government
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