By Cal Braid Local Journalism Initiative 26/07/2024 Bow River MP Martin Shields spoke in the House of Commons on recently, and brought some urgency to an issue that continues to be bumped down the federal government’s to-do list: a Clean Water Act for First Nations peoples. He gave a brief history of migration, settlement, and the pursuit of freshwater sources, before zeroing in on the issue of clean drinking water, or a lack thereof for certain Indigenous people. “Modern advances in sanitation, industrialization, and sanitation-based practices have led to an explosion of the use of water, and with it, a growth in populations. As populations grew, people moved into rural and remote areas, where they always experienced difficulty finding water. However, Indigenous people in this part of the world knew…
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