The Yukon’s Most Important Piece of Infrastructure Is a Plastic Blue Jug

The Yukon’s Most Important Piece of Infrastructure Is a Plastic Blue Jug

I open the faucet and water gushes out, frothing as it fills a bright blue twenty-litre plastic jug, its faded sticker declaring BUILT TOUGH. You’ve probably seen one in the outdoors aisle at Canadian Tire: a cubic jug with a red or white screw-top faucet and a built-in handle for convenience. Most Canadians would associate the blue jug with camping trips. I’m lugging six twenty-litre blue jugs in the back of my truck to my permanent residence o…