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ArticleInternational journal of circumpolar health2025

Development of water safety risk matrices to improve water safety in Arctic drinking water systems in Nunavut, Canada.

Elan Chalmers, Caroline Duncan, Stephanie Gora

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Article in International journal of circumpolar health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Elan ChalmersCivil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0009-0008-8185-5604
Caroline DuncanCivil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0009-0005-0008-0981
Stephanie GoraCivil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7159-6492

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Safe drinking water is key to individual and community health. Water safety is often evaluated based on whether or not a community's drinking water meets the quality standards specified by a governing authority. These water quality standards address many microbial and chemical water safety risks but may not capture risks that are difficult to quantify or community-specific needs and preferences. Water safety planning, first introduced by the World Health Organization, is a more holistic approach that aims to integrate water system stakeholders, system mapping, hazard identification and matrices to better characterise risk. In this study, we documented previous efforts to apply water WSPs in Arctic jurisdictions and evaluated existing risk scoring systems for potential application to Nunavut, an Arctic territory in Canada. The observations from the evaluation informed the development of a preliminary WSP framework for Nunavut which considers both past frequency and the existing hazard barriers in place when determining the likelihood score.

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Drinking WaterWater QualityWater SupplyArctic RegionsHumansNunavutRisk AssessmentWater MicrobiologyDrinking WaterArctic water systemsdrinking waterRisk AssessmentWater qualitywater safetyWater Safety Plan

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PMID39819602
PMCPMC11748980

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