A splitter on the hose allows two people to access water at a time, says resident Jason Cormier, 24.
An order was issued to the city last week to install potable water, more toilets, and hand sanitizing devices.
The city also brought in three more portable toilets to the tent city, at 1 Port Drive.
You know water is essential.” “It has been difficult to provide water for everybody.” Some local businesses have discouraged campers from accessing water to fill drinking bottles but a couple of nearby fast-food outlets have been accommodating, Wendy said.
DisconTent City is among tent cities established on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
It is a busy place, with people coming and going.
Fry has heard that drug dealers have moved onto the property and said the dynamic of the tent city is changing.
New people have set up tents.
They are people that Fry said she doesn’t recognize from Nanaimo’s homeless population.
By the time a rental unit had been advertised for a couple of days, there are already about 60 people ready to take it, making it impossible to find a place, Cormier said.