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Download or read book On Notice for a Drinking Water Crisis in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commons framework requires a Act require companies to pay $2.25 per million shift in water governance to prioritize the human litres.17 The revised Water Sustainability Act fails right to water, public participation, and the inclu- to recognize water as a human right and public sion of First Nations and other communities in trust or respect a community's right to say "no" to decision-making proc [...] The company also has the Ruddock Creek lead and zinc mine, which Alberta threatens some of the most important water- In 2011, production of the tar sands - known sheds and salmon runs in Secwepemc territory, as one of the world's dirtiest fuels - used ap- including the Adams River run, the world's largest proximately 170 million cubic metres of water, remaining sockeye salmon run. [...] In the fall In a 2011 evaluation of drinking water protection of 2014, Suncor Energy sent two of the largest oil by Ecojustice, Nunavut received the lowest grade supertanker ever to sail on the St. [...] The wastewater is a conten- tious issue, with the province and the industrial Nova Scotia facility desperate to find a solution for treatment and disposal of the waste. [...] Based munities" by passing resolutions that recognize on the UN resolutions on the human right to safe the human right to water, ban the sale of bottled drinking water and sanitation, the Canadian gov- water at municipal facilities and events, and pro- ernment is obligated to develop a comprehensive national plan of action.