When I found out about the boil water notice, I had just drank about half of my water bottle full of Prince Rupert tap water.
At first I was concerned.
I’m still haunted by my date with beaver fever in Nepal, and many other pleasantries that are often a traveller’s right of passage in many parts of the world.
However, there are millions of people around the world, including First Nations in Canada, who don’t have access to that right.
It has been over a decade since Prince Rupert has experienced a short-term advisory or notice on its water.
The local nurse told me that it was because my skin wasn’t used to their water.
We had an E. coli contamination in the water there, and the taps were shut right off.
My boss at the time didn’t want to risk boiling water, so everything came from a treated water jug.
Once again, the boil water notice came and went.
This boil water notice is just a blip in the system to remind us of how great we have it here, when the water is clean.