Water Facts

The City does not expect residents to smell fuel in their drinking water. The City has taken a comprehensive approach to addressing this problem and removing the risk of recurrence. The City has enhanced its procedures to ensure that if a complaint is received, City staff respond quickly and effectively.

The City has taken many steps to remove the likelihood of future detection of petroleum hydrocarbons.

The City has implemented improved Consumer Water Quality Inquiry procedures, with a particular focus on the possibility of aesthetic complaints regarding petroleum hydrocarbon smells.

The City’s drinking water meets or is better than all territorial requirements and the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality. Health Canada has established the Guidelines, and the Maximum Acceptable Concentrations or Drinking Water Screening Values established within those Guidelines, so that the consumption of drinking water meeting those limits is protective of human health. Extensive sampling and analysis of the City of Iqaluit’s water continues to return results that meet or are better than these guidelines.