Not that the water from the local hamlet's water supply tasted anything but clean and pure. It certainly tasted better than most water supplies in southern Canadian cities. It's just that the Inuit elder prefers his tea made with water melted from the icebergs out in the Northwest Passage.
Many elders here call tap water bad.
From a viewpoint in southern Canada, Resolute is about as isolated as a community can get. But the hamlet of about 250 people has indeed been through many changes. Through his picture window, Kalluk gets a perfect ocean view of Barrow Strait, part of the famous North West Passage. About 155 years earlier, the same view would have been a good spot to catch sight of Sir John Franklin's ships making their journey to eventual disaster. A few years later, the Resolute, one of the ships sent to search for the ill-fated expedition, stuck fast in the winter ice here and Resolute Bay suddenly had a name.