"‘There is nothing more fundamental than safe drinking water, and sanitation infrastructure for our communities’"
"Residents of Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut, got word in early March they could finally stop boiling their water after months of boil water advisories and off-and-on water services. Nunavut is Canada’s largest territory, almost the size of Mexico, and is 84 percent Inuit.
A lack of clean water and inadequate sanitation systems are common in the Arctic, according to an Inuit joint submission to the United Nations.
Drinking bottled water and hauling water from a nearby river then from water depots has been a hardship for Iqaluit’s 7,700 residents. And water quality is still a concern with a lake now the town’s main water source."
Joaqlin Estus reports for Indian Country Today March 23, 2022.
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