{"id":262399,"date":"2025-09-28T23:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/262399\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:21:47","slug":"schools-offices-closed-in-pangnirtung-nunavut-due-to-loss-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/262399\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools, offices closed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, due to loss of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools and territorial government offices in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, are closed until further notice as the community\u00a0enters its third day without water service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nunavut Emergency Management (NEM) announced the closures in a news release on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The community of over 1,500\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/pangnirtung-nunavut-declares-state-of-emergency-1.7643372\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declared a state of emergency<\/a>\u00a0Thursday after a\u00a0pipe failure at the water treatment plant that&#8217;s preventing the hamlet from filling delivery trucks with water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Health and Family Services services will continue to provide limited services. On Friday, the Health department told CBC News the local health centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/nunavut-gov-t-sends-water-pumps-to-pangnirtung-as-water-emergency-enters-day-2-1.7644781\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is operating on an emergency basis only<\/a>. Residents can still reach the on-call social worker, income assistance, and the on-call nurse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Nunavut government is continuing to send shipments of bottled water and stainless steel pumps to draw water directly from the reservoir.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transportation is also providing technical expertise related to the community&#8217;s water treatment plant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post Saturday, hamlet officials said\u00a0a plumber has arrived in town to work on the issue. Water treatment plant engineers are expected to arrive on Monday\u00a0evening.<\/p>\n<p>Water pumps are now filling water trucks from the river,\u00a0according to the hamlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A boil water notice remains in place. That also applies\u00a0to any water drawn from lakes and rivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The advisory said all water for consumption must be brought to a rolling boil for at least one minute. That includes water for drinking, preparing food, and brushing teeth.<\/p>\n<p>NEM is encouraging residents to conserve bottled water for essential use and prepare for up to 72 hours with available supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schools and territorial government offices in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, are closed until further notice as the community\u00a0enters its third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":262400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-262399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115284494454071196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}