This is the only public water tap of Davis Inlet to serve most of the community of 500 people. There is no
running water or sewers in the houses, except in the housing for white people. Adequate health care,
housing and social services have yet to be achieved.
New mining developments further threaten the fragile lands which the Innu call home. Recently, large mineral deposits were discovered on land near Davis Inlet, and widespread drilling and open-pit mining by multinational resource extraction corporations have quickly covered a large area. Like the rest of Nitassinan, the land-claims to Voisey Bay (site of the mining) have not been settled. The land is part of the area traditionally used by both Innu and Inuit, and the overlapping claims of both groups complicate the settlement. Like the situation in Sept-Iles, and repeated often across the continent, governments appear to be manipulating the divisions within and between different native groups and communities for capital gains in resource extraction.