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Iqaluit seeks a new emergency fix for another looming water shortage

Record low rainfall means the Nunavut capital's water supply is at its lowest levels ever.

By Jim Bell, Nunatsiaq News August 12, 2019
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To ensure Iqaluit’s Lake Geraldine water reservoir contains enough water to make it through the winter, Iqaluit municipal officials want the Nunavut Water Board’s permission to start pumping water as soon as possible from a nearby body of water they call Unnamed Lake.

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