b'HOUSING, INFRASTRUCTURE, EMERGENCY SERVICESImagine the time when our NationsTo conclude, the climate crisis orour neighbours and Treaty partners both stand as beacons of ethics, of insight,climate emergency is happening. Criticalhuman and non-human, and with the our women as the rightful protectors ofInfrastructure is part of what Nationsworld at large, that will help us go far water, of the most profound scientificaround the world are worried about,as Nations.and social understandings. And as thewhat they are investing in, and what they last remaining places of safety andare thinking deeply about protecting inI close with the following:compassion amidst savagery. the coming years. First Nations must doIndigenous nations are built on a notion The climate crisis is a lens through whichthe same. of kinship that stretches not only to human we can see the world, and the future.However, we do so not only for ourselves,beings but to the non-human world. It was When looking forward through that lensand not only for the coming seventhe non-human world, we must remember, I believe that getting our relationshipgenerations. I think we do it for our kin,who adopted us to their nations. Gave us a to water healthy and strong will alsohuman and non-human. We do it soplace to live, their skins to wear, their bodies innately help our Nations be healthy andthat in the hard times our Nations willto eat. We are guests in these territories and strong. Water is life. remain and hold the sacred teachingsmust meet, confer and offer gifts with them for those yet to come. My hope is thattoo. The borderlands between ourselves and as we re/build our Nations we invest in the physical and non-physical criticalthe water, Earth and animals must also be infrastructure that can withstand andunder constant negotiation as needs and adapt to the climate crisis. Those yetconflicts arise.Niigaan Sinclair in The to come will thank us, as we thankGlobe and Mail in 2017those who survived and thrived throughCaleb Z. Behn, J.D. is the Special Advisor-the hard times before. The old coastalWater to the AFN Housing, Infrastructure teaching says, if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far you goand Emergency Services Management together. As we consider our NationhoodSector at the AFN. He is Eh-Cho Dene and FACTS and our water future, I think it is thisDunne-Za from the northwestern edge of AND FIGURES togetherness, amongst ourselves, withTreaty No. 8. I ncreasing temperatures on the planet and more variable rainfalls are expected to reduce crop yields in many tropical developing regions, where food security is already a problem. (WHO)More than two billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress. The situation will likely worsen as populations and the demand for water grow, and as the effects of climate change intensify. (United Nations, 2018)With the existing climate change scenario, by 2030, water scarcity in some arid and semi-arid places will displace between 24 million and 700 million people. (UNCCD)By the 2080s, land unsuitable for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa due to severe climate, soil or terrain constraints may increase by 30 to 60 million hectares. (FAO). Scientists, farmers and the businessTANKSCOVERS SERVICEcommunity consider variability, casted as extreme weather events, as one of the most likely production risks over the next 10 years (WEF, 2015). \x1f866\x1e 299\x1d3009 | WWW.GREATARIO.COMwww.afn.ca 89'