The Fight for Safe Drinking Water
Water Justice: What You Don’t Know Could Kill You, exposes threats to the health of Canadians from Canada’s drinking water, revealing government negligence and affecting both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. The book critiques Canada’s weak and provincially varied drinking water guidelines compared to other G7 nations drinking water regulations, arguing that corporate lobbyists hold more influence than citizens over water policy.
Blacklin documents political indifference across parties and connects the decline of Canada’s water quality to the erosion of our democracy. Highlighting contaminated source waters and inadequate protections, the book calls readers to action, emphasizing that safe drinking water requires citizen engagement to overcome government failure and corporate control.