Testing Domestic Rainwater Harvesting as a Measure to Improve Drinking Water Access in a Remote Water-Insecure Community

We would also like to thank: NunatuKavut Community Council and Black Tickle-Domino Local Service District [LSD] for collaborating and providing in-kind support for the project; Tom Spargo from the Rainsaucers Company, California for providing valuable advice and making a financial contribution towards the purchase of the rainwater harvesting units; the seven households who participated in the stud [...] The pilot project aimed to have a positive impact on water security by increasing peoples’ access to and consumption of drinking water from the PDWU; we also aimed to generate lessons for other remote communities in NL and beyond. [...] The primary objectives of the mixed-methods research project were as follows: • To increase drinking water access through the provision and installation of 14 domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH) systems in order for households to collect “general use” water, thus allowing householders to concentrate their water PWDU retrieval efforts on drinking water and accrue other benefits • Working with resi [...] The Southern Inuit of Black Tickle-Domino were settled on Island of Ponds year round in the late 1960s, at the urging of the Roman Catholic Church and the government of Newfoundland, which wanted to end Indigenous people’s seasonal movements for the stated purpose of service delivery, especially schooling. [...] The people of Black Tickle-Domino are predominantly the descendants of Inuit women and British men who came to Labrador to engage in fishing and trapping.