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

几十年来，加拿大一直在努力应对为所有加拿大人--特别是为其土著社区--提供安全饮用水和卫生设施的挑战。因此，加拿大政府优先在加拿大各地的原住民社区取消长期开水建议。与《生物多样性公约》有关的研究，特别是在原住民中，已确定业务方面的关切是预防性《生物多样性公约》发放的主要原因。水安全计划(WSP)是一种主动管理供水系统风险的方法。这一风险管理方法已在90多个国家成功实施，无论是在管辖范围内还是通过案例研究，但尚未在加拿大或第一民族社区得到广泛推广。这项研究中研究的WSP方法提供了一种工具，专注于确定风险缓解程序(如操作危险事件)的优先顺序，而不是仅关注水质监测计划。BWAS缺乏传达有关水系统风险的信息的复杂程度，而WSP是一种全球公认的向系统提供安全水的方法。这项研究将对水系统产生的影响将对原住民社区起到重要作用。特别是，原住民水经营者将拥有识别危险和评估风险的资源，然后可用于制定详细的改进计划，以帮助做出关于水系统的知情决定。这一迭代过程将确保每个水系统随着危害的减轻和风险的减少而不断发展，从而产生长期、可持续、清洁的饮用水。这项研究计划旨在评估WSP的可持续性和有效性，以及如何将WSP纳入原住民社区的水治理结构。这是大西洋第一民族酋长政策大会秘书处、大西洋第一民族水资源管理局和达尔豪西大学之间的合作伙伴关系。

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 beintegrated into First Nations communities' water governance structure. This is a collaborative partnershipbetween the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat, the Atlantic First Nations WaterAuthority, and Dalhousie University.