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Canada has one of the most decentralized water governance systems in the world. Health Canada promotes the Multi-Barrier Approach to Safe Drinking Water and offers guidelines but the federal government’s role is otherwise limited. Water responsibilities are generally downloaded to junior governments with limited capacity. Because of this, small, remote, and Indigenous communities experience a range of water security challenges, some of them extreme. This occurs in spite of the United Nations’ 2010 recognition of water as a human right.
Dr. Maura Hanrahan is a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier II) and Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Lethbridge. She is also an adjunct professor with Memorial University's Environmental Policy Institute. She has degrees from Memorial University, Carleton University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science where she was a Rothermere Fellow. Her upcoming book is Unchained Man: The Arctic Life and Times of Robert Abram Bartlett.
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Jefffrey Bingley, Admin Assistant, Prentice Institute | prentice@uleth.ca | 4033801814 | uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute