Don’t drink from tap, Canadian city says, as gasoline suspected in water supply

State of emergency in Iqaluit, capital of Nunavut territory, as officials say they are testing water for petroleum hydrocarbons

Officials in Canada's northernmost capital have declared a local state of emergency after finding possible evidence of gasoline in the city's tap water.

Residents of Iqaluit, the capital of the Arctic territory of Nunavut, have been told not to drink, boil or cook with the city's water.