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Using Search Terms

 

Use the search terms below in various combinations to see what kinds of results you get.

For example, combine "water supply" AND "public health" to find how water supplies can affect the health of a population.

Search Terms by Subjects

Water Supply

"water shortages"

"water rights"

"water supply"

"water consumption"

"water use"

droughts or groundwater or “water table” or “water levels”

"water efficiency"

"climate change"

"water management"

watersheds

agriculture or farming or crops or vegetable or fruit or “food security”

freshwater

biodiversity

"human rights"

privatization

"rainfall anomalies"

"water harvesting" or "water distribution" or "water transfer"

"water conservation"

Canada or United States or China

"recycled water"

"saline water conversion"

“residential water consumption” or “drinking water”

conflict or war

“water supply & politics”

 

Single Use Plastics

Ban

Biodegradable alternatives

Biodegradable plastics

Consumer behavio*r

Food packaging

Human health

Marine pollution

Microplastic*

Ocean health

Plastic consumption

Policy

Single use plastic*

SUPs

Sustainability

Waste management

 

Truth and Reconciliation Indigenous Peoples

TRC

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

TRC recommendations

Calls to Action

Colonization

Decolonization

 

Indigenous

Aboriginal

Aboriginal Canadian

First Nations

Inuit

Metis

Coast Salish Nations

K'omox

Residential schools Indigenous Knowledge

Residential school system

Industrial school

Unmarked graves

Inter-generational trauma

 

Traditional Knowledge (TK)

Aboriginal knowledge

Cultural heritage