Nunavut Emergency Management Flying in Bottled Water to Gjoa Haven: Mayor

Nunavut Emergency Management flying in bottled water to Gjoa Haven: Mayor

The Government of Nunavut has flown in in 9,216 water bottles to Gjoa Haven as of March 2 to help alleviate a boil water advisory that has been in place

Nunavut community should declare state of emergency, visiting mechanic advises

By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Two of three water delivery trucks in Gjoa Haven have broken down along with a snow plow truck and a bulldozer crucial to keeping an access road to the water treatment facility open as of Feb. 22. The deteriorating state of the hamlet’s fleet comes over a month into a boil water advisory, issued on Jan. 16, caused by a burst pipe connecting a nearby lake to the water…