Just Waters - Centre for Human Rights Research

The Just Waters project and Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) are based in Winnipeg, Manitoba on the original lands of the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewuk, and Dakota Oyate, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. We honour the lands, waters and relationships that sustain us.


Is there a body of water that you live in relationship with?  What do you love about the waters?  Please submit a short phrase or word that expresses what you love about the waters, or the name of a body of water.  Your submission will be sent to us and then integrated into the word cloud below.

Just Waters: Thinking with Hydro-Social Relations for a More Just and Sustainable World

About Us

Just Waters: Thinking with Hydro-Social Relations for a More Just and Sustainable World is a project funded by the University of Manitoba’s IGNITE program and supported by the Centre for Human Rights Research. It is housed in St. John’s College. Created to shed critical light on the connections between water, injustice and broader struggles for a more just and sustainable world amid the climate crisis, Just Waters engages a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to research and knowledge mobilization. Central to this is the understanding of water as a living entity, not simply a resource for human use.

Artist-in-Residence

The Just Waters Artist-in-Residence program brought Indigenous artist Jaimie Isaac to the University of Manitoba campus for one-on-one consultations with emerging artists, workshops, public talks, and collaborative projects with the Just Waters research team.

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Open Education Resource

Funded by the University of Manitoba’s Advance Open Ed initiative, this open education resource (OER) will be a wide-ranging, visually rich collection of material that puts water in the centre of human and more-than-human life. In June 2025, a workshop led by The Environmental Storytelling Studio supported contributors in increasing the appeal and accessibility of their writing.

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Water Justice is Menstruation Justice

The Centre for Human Rights Research, Just Waters, and Dr. Lisa Smith (Douglas College) are collaborating to develop an external funding application for a project exploring the intersection of water justice and menstruation justice in Canada and the United States, an area that has received scant attention in the literature.

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For past events, see https://chrr.info/just-waters/past-events/

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