Many First Nations communities in Canada have gone for years without clean drinking water, in what have been described as “Third-World conditions in a First-World country.” Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015 promising to fix this grave inequity. However, while some...
Achieving water justice KATHERINE TAYLOR, ANNE POELINA Australia’s current water framework needs to pay more attention to Indigenous First Law, water governance, and knowledge and experience, Anne Poelina and Kat Taylor write. Australia’s Indigenous peoples have...
For at least 60,000 years, Indigenous Australians have sustainably managed Australia’s environment and water. However, contemporary water management strategies leave Indigenous communities at risk. In this video, published by the CSIRO and narrated by traditional...
Late last month, Water Justice Hub was honoured to help host ‘Visualisation of the 2019 Peoples Tribunal Testimonies’ on 17 April at Maidens Hotel, Menindee and 20-21April at Wilcannia Community Hall. The goal of this event was to help bring attention and...
Water Justice Hub is proud to help host ‘Visualisation of the 2019 Peoples Tribunal Testimonies’, coming to Menindee on 17 April and Wilcannia on 20-21 April. If you are in Menindee and Wilcannia, make sure to come and see these important artworks while you can! There...
Quentin Grafton (Australian National University, Australia), Safa Fanaian (University of Oxford, UK), Gabriela Sacco (Institute for Global Dialogue and Culture of Encounter, Argentina) and Luis Liberman (Instituto Universitario del Agua y el Saneamiento, Argentina)...
The world faces severe global risks of over-extraction and misuse of water that will prevent achievement by 2030 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. The crisis of...
By Kat Taylor, Water Justice Hub, Australian National University Australians say we want water security. But what is it? This simple term hides different meanings. Beneath the ‘water security’ rhetoric are water winners and water losers. As the climate dries,...
Dan Schulz is an independent filmmaker and writer based in Menindee, NSW. He is one of two recipients of the ARC Laureate Fellowship, Water Justice: Indigenous Water Valuation and Resilient Decision-making, at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. His films are...