‘Water Is Sacred’: Randhi 3 staff deploys new water tracking apparatus around the house

Laine Fyke says it is important to find out how climate change Treaty 3 is affecting lakes and rivers in the region.

FYKE is helping to oversee the community monitoring coordinator, the organization’s community-based monitoring program with the Territorial Planning Unit of the Grand Council Treaty 3.

The initial program is in the dates of 2018, when the handheld meter was used to collect baseline water quality data in Sandhi 3. In the region, 28 first nations and Thunder Bay, to the west of the Onts, north of the Seox Lookout, along the international border, to the international border for Manitoba province.

This year, the Territorial Planning unit has deployed new, cylindrical equipment, which measure small and long -term water temperature, pH levels and dissolved oxygen in water.

“Climate change can affect water temperature. Of course, it can increase water temperature, which can reduce the aquatic life, residence, as well as reduce the amount of dissolved oxygen, need to survive,” Faike said.

“These will be the kind of things we will see in our data trends.”

So far, eight equipment associated with large yellow elders has been deployed, and the team has continued to reach communities to reduce interest.

“We will work to find a community-identified site to work with these communities-so it can be a sacred site, a place of ecological importance like a fish sponing residence, or somewhere near water intake,” Faike said.

He said that the final goal, if funding can be secured for this, then all 28 first nations in the region have to deploy equipment, he said.

“With community permission, we can use (this data) to better advocate for changes in relation to natural resource development, climate change policies and human effects,” fake said.

‘It is associated with all of us’

Scott is a senior research scientist with Higgins International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Experimental lakes. The institute has a research station located in Northwestern Ontario, where it is currently operating related experiments Microplastics, Antimicrobial And the algal blooms.

The institute offered support to the Grand Council Treaty 3 when it first started its surveillance program, worked as water quality for decades.

Higgins stated that community-based monitoring programs have many benefits, as they allow the data to be collected in more remote areas.

“When you think of Northwestern Ontario, it is very big and there are lots of water, and most of those places have no monitoring,” he said. “Community-based monitoring programs are important for collecting data that will not be collected otherwise.”

The number of development in the region, such as logging and mining, Higgins stated that Higgins stated that it is important to establish a base line whether it should look like circumstances, and how industrial activities can change them over time.

It is cost effective even after this work done at the community level, he said, the researchers said, while reducing the need to travel distance to collect data.

Higins said, “This is clearly a huge value for local first nations, in this case for Treaty 3, but it is also of a large value for Ontario, and so I will only love support for these programs and grow in future.”

Fiyake said he hopes that the project helps to raise awareness about the importance of waterways of the area – and reminds people that if they face them during open water season they do not interfere with equipment.

“The water is holy,” he said. “We rely on water in these aquatic ecosystems. It is connected to all of us, and we want to protect and preserve this water and its inhabitants for future generations.”