Drinking Water Quality in the Circumpolar North: An Examination of Waterborne Giardia and Cryptosporidium in Iqaluit and Rigolet, Canada

• Main Author: Masina, Stephanie
• Other Authors: Harper, Sherilee
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Guelph 2018
• Subjects: drinking water; water quality; human health; Inuit health; Canada; Arctic; community-based research; waterborne disease; Giardia; Cryptosporidium; Nunavut; Rigolet; ArcticNet; Human health; inuit; Iqaluit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10214/12968

Drinking water challenges often exist in the Circumpolar North; therefore, this research examined northern drinking water quality using three studies. First, a scoping review summarized circumpolar drinking water quality and human health literature, identifying few studies examining waterborne paras...