Water Safety Planning in Partnership with the Atlantic First Nations Water Authority: A Strategy for Water Regulation

几十年来，加拿大一直在努力为所有加拿大人，特别是土著社区提供安全饮用水和卫生设施。因此，加拿大政府已优先考虑在加拿大各地的原住民社区中消除长期的沸水供水设施。与生物武器协定有关的研究，特别是在第一民族的研究，已确定业务方面的关切是预防性生物武器协定签发的主要原因。 水安全计划（WSP）是一种积极主动的供水系统风险管理方法。这种管理风险的方法已在90多个国家成功地在司法一级或通过个案研究加以实施，但在加拿大或原住民社区尚未得到广泛发展。在这项研究中，WSP的方法研究提供了一个工具，重点放在风险缓解程序，如操作危险事件的优先顺序，而不是仅仅专注于水质监测计划。BWA缺乏沟通水系统风险信息的复杂性，WSP是全球公认的为系统提供安全用水的方法。这项研究将对水系统产生的影响将有助于第一民族社区。特别是，原住民水经营者将有资源来确定危害和评估风险，然后可以用来制定详细的改善计划，以帮助对供水系统作出知情的决定。这一反复的过程将确保每个水系统随着危害的减轻和风险的降低而不断发展，从而产生长期、可持续的清洁饮用水。 该研究计划旨在评估WSP的可持续性和有效性，以及WSP如何能够 将其纳入原住民社区的水治理结构。这是一种合作伙伴关系 第一民族酋长秘书处大西洋政策大会，大西洋第一民族水 权威机构和达尔豪西大学。

Canada has struggled for decades with the challenge of providing safe drinking water and sanitation for all Canadians-particularly for its Indigenous communities. Accordingly, the Government of Canada has prioritized removing long-term boil water advisories (BWAs) in First Nations communities across Canada. Studies related to BWAs, particularly in First Nations have identified operational concerns as the leading cause of precautionary BWA issuance. Water safety plans (WSPs) represent a proactive method for managing risk in water supply systems. This method of managing risk has been conducted successfully in over 90 countries, either at a jurisdictional level or through case studies, but has not been developed extensively in Canada or in First Nations Communities. The WSP approach examined in this study provides a tool focused on prioritization of risk mitigation procedures such as operational hazardous events, instead of focusing solely on water quality monitoring programs. BWAs lack the sophistication to communicate information about risk in a water system and the WSP is a method acknowledged globally for its capacity to provide safe water to systems. The impact this research will have on the water systems will be instrumental to the First Nations communities. In particular, First Nations water operators will have the resources to identify hazards and assess risks which then can be used to develop a detailed improvement plan to help make informed decisions on the water system. This iterative process will ensure that each water system continues to evolve as hazards are mitigated and risks are lessened, resulting in long-term, sustainable, clean drinking water. This research program seeks to evaluate WSP sustainability and effectiveness and how WSPs can be integrated into First Nations communities' water governance structure. This is a collaborative partnership between the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat, the Atlantic First Nations Water Authority, and Dalhousie University.