Autumn Peltier knows something about the value of water. The 16-year-old is the Anishinaabe Nation’s chief water commissioner – a “warrior” for clean water – from the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island. She became globally recognized when, on World Water Day March 22, 2018, she delivered an impassioned speech to the United Nations in New York. At five feet tall then, Pelletier had to stand on a stool behind the podium to reach the microphone. She spoke softly, but to the point. “No child should grow up not knowing what clean water is,” she said. “We all have a right to this water as we need it – not just rich people, all people.”