Inuit village in Quebec’s Far North facing ‘severe’ water distribution challenges

MONTREAL — Officials in Quebec’s Nunavik region are raising the alarm over severe water distribution challenges in the Inuit community of Puvirnituq.
The Kativik Regional Government says the village’s five-kilometre-long water pipeline froze during a blizzard in mid-March and has yet to thaw.
As a result, the town of roughly 2,100 people has been forced to bring in water by truck over long distances in extreme weather on icy roads.
Kativik says the water is loaded at a pumping