UN expert on right to safe drinking water to visit Nunavut
Special rapporteur will be in territory sometime between April 8 and 19 to meet local officials
Water trucks like this are used to provide many Nunavummiut with clean drinking water. A UN special rapporteur on the right to clean drinking water and sanitation plans to visit the territory this month as part of a tour of water and sanitation infrastructure in several Canadian jurisdictions. (File photo)
A United Nations expert on safe drinking water and sanitation plans to visit Nunavut as part of an 11-day trip to Canada in which he will meet with federal, provincial and Indigenous leaders.
Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, will examine several aspects of these issues, including availability, accessibility, quality and safety, affordability, acceptability for drinking, domestic usage and sanitation.
The UN announced the trip April 4 in a news release.
Arrojo-Agudo’s itinerary will take him to Ontario, Nunavut, British Columbia and Alberta before he heads to a news conference in Ottawa where he will announce his preliminary findings.
His office declined a request for an interview to provide further details, including when the delegation will arrive in Nunavut.
The UN special rapporteur on the right to safe water and sanitation conducts research, undertakes missions to different countries, and works with development practitioners to help fulfill people’s rights to water and sanitation, according to the United Nations Human Rights website.
In late 2021, residents in Iqaluit were unable to drink the city’s water for two months after fuel was discovered in the water supply.
The Government of Nunavut frequently issues short-term boil water advisories in hamlets for safety reasons.
for sure they will only visit Iqaluit. they need to get to the communities, such has Sanikiluaq where we have not been allowed to use the water to drink, cook, brush our teeth…and so on for the past 5 years.
He should also take a hike to Pond Inlet salt water mass from the dust around the mine. reddish gug.
You mean that naturally occurring iron ore that’s been there since time immemorial? lol
Drink “Iceberg Vodka”. Heard it’s made from an iceberg. (If it’s not a false advertisement). Personally, o drink Jack Daniel Whiskey.
What a waste of time and money. Environmentalist were already doing parts of Nunavut. They found turbidity in the communities drinking water. A result of dirt. Cloudy water. Causes bad health to people. Mainly sore throats and cold. Diarrhea.
JUNKET, thats all this trip is !!!
He should come to Chester. We’re the oldest place in Nunavut and we still live in some of the houses that were first built here. All our houses sill use the water tanks and we rely on the water trucks. It is usual to run out of water here. We usually have to ask and beg for water fill-up on our FB page. It’s sad and scary. Hopefully the Rapporteur will go to the proper places including here.
So does the rest of Nunavut communities. Every community has old houses. Every community municipal service can’t keep up at all too. People go weeks without municipal service. And this is in bigger communities
This racketeering UN prtson shouldn’t be wandering around Canada om amy official business. The arrogance is almost as exhausting as the realization that we willingly accept it
Why elected Government Nunavut and NTI, KIA’s, QIA Inuit orgs cannot come up with solutions to solve Nunavut’s water woes? Instead, we’re to “Be Happy” unelected foreign bureaucrat will get the job done.
Will foreign controlled bureaucrat sound-bite clips from NTI, KIAs, QIA, soon be all the rage? Wagging their finger at GN saying… UN Special Rapporteur said this…. UN Special Rapporteur concluded this.
Isn’t the great reset goal to control the world by unelected bureaucrats?
I hope they brought a lot of water with them. Can’t drink Iqaluit’s water and can’t afford bottled water.
I wonder how many think to BOIL their water and then bottle or jug it and put it in the fridge for drinking?
Or, he could come to Resolute and see how our utilidor system could also be applied in those little communities.
The representative should go to Whale Cove, it has had the most Boil Water order’s in all of Nunavut since we became Nunavut. Happy 25th.