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Water shortage prompts Iqaluit to declare state of emergency. The city will begin pumping from a nearby lake to refill its main reservoir ahead of freeze-up.

Stantec engineers rigged up these pipes in mid-August to pump water from Unnamed Lake to Iqaluit's water reservoir in Lake Geraldine.

The move allows the municipality to begin pumping water from a nearby lake, referred to as Unnamed Lake or Qikiqtalik Lake, to fill the water reservoir in Lake Geraldine ahead of freeze-up. Deputy Mayor Solomon Awa asked if additional pumping would be required to make up for the water deficit. He also told council that the body of water they referred to as Unnamed Lake is actually known as Qikiqtalik in Inuktitut.

Coun. Kyle Sheppard asked if the city would require any more infrastructure to pump the required volume of water. The city can only pump for another two months, meaning it will need to move twice as much water as it has been so far this summer.

 

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Not uncommon they been doing that over the years always ask someone who lived there in the 70s

Perhaps some of the money sent to Ukraine could be diverted to help?

But if the government invested in a desalination plant,

But I thought the Arctic was melting at an alarming pace?

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