non-Inuit

My elective rotation in Iqaluit, Nunavut : strikingly eye-opening

My elective rotation in Iqaluit, Nunavut : strikingly eye-opening

For 60 days, a public health do-not-consume water order was put in place as a precaution when petroleum hydrocarbons were found to be possibly contaminating the city’s drinking water supply. This led to a community response to provide safe drinking water by getting river water from the local Silvia Grinnell territorial park river and mobilizing resources in Canada to bring in bottled water for Iqaluit, a community of approximately 8,000 people.