Iqaluit is in a state of emergency – they have no clean drinking water and have been advised to not even drink boiled water.
On October 12, the Nunavut Department of health identified a possible presence of petroleum hydrocarbons at the city’s water treatment plant and were conducting additional tests, and put a no consumption order in place.
A state of emergency has been called as Iqaluit water is completely unsafe after a potential petroleum contamination. Our thoughts are with the over 8,000 residents whose water is completely undrinkable, not even by boiling or filtering. While the cause is yet to be confirmed, the mayor of Iqaluit has said he suspects climate change. “It’s too early to suggest even what it is, but if I was a betting man and the petroleum product is in there, I would suspect that it’s been damaged due to climate change,” he said. “We had a very warm and wet summer here in Iqaluit and of course as climate change has been impacting us greatly, I would say maybe the permafrost melted and our facility may have moved.” (from ‘Terrible situation’: Iqaluit water crisis exposes precarious conditions in the city via CTV News, Oct 13, 2021)
Residents are in need of donations to purchase water jugs for its 8,000 residents. There is already bottled water already being flown, but it won’t be enough. Clean drinking water is a human right.
As a consequence of colonial-era laws, Indigenous communities have been barred from funding and managing their own water treatment systems, and the federal government bears responsibility for fixing problems. In 2016, there were 105 communities with long-term drinking water advisories in place –meaning the water had been unsafe to use or consume for at least a year. As of late April, that number is down to 52 advisories in 33 communities.
the post about fanfic writers updating despite wild life circumstances is funny and great, but to all the slow writers, the writers who can’t focus when life is happening a lot, or who simply like taking time off from writing: you’re doing amazing, fandom is not an obligation, and there are many people who prefer short fics, or who read slowly and are in no rush for updates.
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Just. For the record, for anyone worried after seeing that post; Traumadumping on the first day of therapy is like. A good therapist’s dream. Like they WANT you to spill out your problems so they can help you work through them. When you only have an hour with someone once a month it is a Godsend for them to be able to just. Say whats hurting them right off the bat. The biggest problem I had at therapy was I became so conditioned to not talk about my issues that nothing was able to get done. So please, ‘traumadump’ to your therapist. Its what they’re paid for. They are trained to decompress, you don’t have to worry about them.
