Webinar – Jun 29, 2017

Turning Drinking Water Rights Research into Action

 

Presenters: Aimée Craft, Katherine Starzyk, Melanie O’Gorman, Karen Busby, Rayanna Seymour, Aleah Fontaine

 

A group of Manitoba-based researchers has been working on how to get Canadians to care about clean drinking water and safe wastewater treatment in First Nation communities. A Faculty of Elders has explained relations with and responsibilities to care for water, other legal experts have explored how to assert rights, social scientists and community members have evaluated the effectiveness of different messages describing the problem, and number-crunchers have considered how to make clear the financial and human costs of failing to deal with this problem.

 

This webinar will summarize the team’s research results and discuss how they can be used in ways that effect real change. Webinar participants will learn how long-term problems can be tackled by collaborative research across disciplines that involves both university and community-based researchers. They will also learn new facts and approaches that they can use to advocate for better water and wastewater services in their communities.

 

Date

June 29, 2017

 

Category

#PEKEwebinars

 

Tags

aimee craft, aleah fontaine, first nations, first nations health and social secretariat of manitoba, health, indigenous, karen busby, katherine starzyk, melanie o'gorman, nanaandawewigamig, partners for engagement and knowledge exchange, peke, rayanna seymour, research, rights, water, water is sacred, webinar