Jocelyn Burzuik, President and Senior Construction Manager at Sundance Construction, joins the Zero Waste Countdown once again to talk about a very important issue here in Canada that she has lots of personal experience with: clean drinking water for First Nations and remote Canadian communities.
When treated water is filtered with chlorine it creates trihalomethanes (THMs), causing problems for northern communities that lead to people bathing in bottled water to avoid rashes, and sometimes people need flights into bigger cities with hospitals for treatment. We also see antibiotics being prescribed to combat H. pylori which leads to antibiotic resistance in our communities.
But can't we just drill a well and be good to go? It's not so simple. Even where I live, drilling a well for one family was complicated, problematic, and expensive. Drilling to get enough water for a whole community in the north is much more complicated and expensive when we add in the costs of getting equipment to remote places. UV with ultrasonics could be the answer.
Jocelyn discusses identity politics and how the Canadian government divides people up by race, which ends up with some communities not being able to share their federal infrastructure with other communities.
Extra Reading:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/attawapiskat-water-quality-emergency-1.5204652
https://canadians.org/analysis/attawapiskat-water-crisis-another-failure-federal-government-provide-safe-water-first-nations
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/h-pylori/symptoms-causes/syc-20356171
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23. What's In Plastic?
22. Nu Grocery
21. Zero Waste Periods
20. Jo Kaminska Foundation
19. Plastics & Politics with Catherine McKenna
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17. BPA In Our Diets
16. Zero Waste Flowers
15. Environmental Defence With Tim Gray
14. Sea of Life: Julia Barnes
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8. Closed-Loop Rain Gear: Faire Child
7. Cooking: Waste Less With MmmChef
6. Removing Clothing From Landfill
5. Hiking And Camping Zero Waste
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