“Straight from the heavens into your bucket”: domestic rainwater harvesting as a measure to improve water security in a subarctic indigenous community

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Nicholas Mercer, Maura Hanrahan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017
• Subjects: Indigenous; health; water; security; subarctic; Canada; rainwater harvesting; drinking water; psychological stress; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Tickle; Black Tickle; Black Tickle-Domino; Circumpolar Health; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; inuit; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1312223; https://doaj.org/article/6d4948c1977e4458ae119659dd18f6fb

Background: Black Tickle-Domino is an extremely water-insecure remote Inuit community in the Canadian subarctic that lacks piped-water. Drinking water consumption in the community is less than a third of the Canadian national average. Water insecurity in the community contributes to adverse health,...