{"id":188365,"date":"2025-09-28T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188365\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:11:10","slug":"schools-offices-closed-in-pangnirtung-nunavut-due-to-loss-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188365\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools, offices closed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, due to loss of water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Nunavut Emergency Management (NEM) announced the closures in a news release on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The community of over 1,500\u00a0declared a state of emergency<\/a>\u00a0Thursday after a\u00a0pipe failure at the water treatment plant that’s preventing the hamlet from filling delivery trucks with water.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Health and Family Services services will continue to provide limited services. On Friday, the Health department told CBC News the local health centre 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

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

The Department of Transportation is also providing technical expertise related to the community’s water treatment plant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

Water pumps are now filling water trucks from the river,\u00a0according to the hamlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A boil water notice remains in place. That also applies\u00a0to any water drawn from lakes and rivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-188365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}