BRANTFORD, ONTARIO — Water became an issue at the April 5 Junos, the annual Canadian national music awards.
When Canadian country star Paul Brandt was given a humanitarian award for his charitable work providing water filtration systems to Third World nations, the next recipient, Derek Miller, a blues-rocker who won the award for best aboriginal recording, said on the podium that better water was needed at the Six Nations Reserve, a Canadian American Indian reservation in Ontario, according to an April 8 story in The Expositor.
Miller took the stage after Brandt, and after congratulating him, encouraged Brandt to bring the technology to the primarily Iroquois Six Nations Reserve.
“I didn’t mean it in a backhanded way,” singer-songwriter Miller said in the story. “But up to this point, we haven’t been getting the media coverage we need to shed light on this. I’m doing what I can to raise awareness and help my people.”
Reactions to the remarks were mixed, and ranged from positive interest to dismay, according to the story.
Miller has been interested in water issues for some time, and currently is involved with Willie Nelson’s Water From Air of Spicewood, TX, the official Gulf Coast-area distributor of Wataire International atmospheric water generator units.
This is Miller’s second Juno award. He received the first in 2003.
“There are Third World reserves all over Canada,” Miller said in the story, while explaining his actions. Miller emphasized he was not attacking Brandt, according to the story.
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