cry for Indigenous environmental justice worldwide, is brief presents compelling evidence surrounding the addressing the ongoing threat of climate change link between water insecurity and suicide in First Nations and highlighting the multiscalar health, social, and in Ontario, illustrating that “water is life” is not a metaphor, environmental impacts of the extractive industrial but is a struggle. [...] e disproportionate rates of death by to market their bottled water, all the while extracting suicide in our communities is widely documented to millions of liters of water a day from Indigenous lands, be approximately 3 times that of the national average contributing to extensive plastic waste, and then proting (Kumar & Tjepkema, 2019), and represents a 50-year o the water insecurity in Indigenous. [...] In others, water insecurity, the loss of In a recent pilot study (Ansloos & Cooper, 2023) aimed traditional practices related to water use at better understanding the relationship between LT- DWAs and suicide rates among First Nations in Ontario, and management, and related stressors compelling evidence of the lethal cost of settler colonial contributed to feelings of anxiety, depression, governme. [...] A LT-DWA is a term used to recognizing the urgency of protecting and restoring describe when a community’s drinking water system fails Indigenous relationships to water to address the complex to meet the quality standards established by the Canadian and interrelated challenges of suicide and environmental Drinking Water Guidelines for a period of more than one injustice, we must begin to tether th. [...] Anishinaabe peoples’ understanding of their inherent relationship with water and their responsibility to protect it, provides an excellent example of how To address water insecurity and its Indigenous governance of water can be linked to mental relationship to suicide in Indigenous and emotional health and livability more broadly.
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