(17 Oct 2024)
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Asheville, North Carolina – 14 October 2024
1. Medium of sign for community well
2. Medium of person filling jug with water
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Erik Iverson, resident:
"Not having running water, made handwashing and flushing toilets very difficult. Hygienically, that was a challenge.”
4. Wide of volunteers planning the plumbing installation
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Erik Iverson, resident:
"After an event like this, everybody springs into action and heroic mode wanting to help. It’s far in advance of any governmental body or any NGO coming in because we’re already here. We know what neighbors need to be taken care of and ways that we can contribute."
6. Various of volunteer using DitchWitch machine to dig a trench
7. Medium of Jeffrey Gray Martyn laying down plumbing pipes
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Erik Iverson, resident:
"Right now we’re moving what was the center of the well water being right at the tap. We’re moving it to the street to make access more simple for our neighbors. A car can pull right up and fill their jugs with water."
9. Wide of person pushing wheelbarrow of water jugs
10. Various of Justin Hager collecting potable water
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Hager, resident:
"So I came over here for two reasons to see how much had been done, meet some of the folks that are working really hard. And also we needed supply badly. “
12. Woman pushing wagon filled with jugs of water
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Hager, resident:
“You know, it even comes down to the conflict of having to use the bathroom. Are we drinking enough water in relation to the fear that we’re having that we’ll have a good, safe, comfortable place to go relieve ourselves?"
14. Wide of Erik Iverson removing water hoses
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Erik Iverson, resident:
"By having this infrastructure in place both here and at numerous wells across the county, then we have the option of diffusing the weight on one particular water source over another.”
15. Medium of well pumping system
16. Volunteer digging a ditch to bury water pipe
17. Various of volunteer using DitchWitch machine to dig a ditch to lay pipe
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Erik Iverson, resident:
“We’re trying to look forward to the future and what we might need for the long haul for our community to have access to potable and flushable water."
STORYLINE:
It takes water to flush a toilet and tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been without it since Hurricane Helene ripped through the state three weeks ago.
Since Helene swallowed mountain towns, damaged water infrastructure and killed nearly 250 people across the Southeast, local governments have been overwhelmed.
Without easy access to water for flushing, people are struggling with where to go to the bathroom and what to do with it. Mishandling fecal matter can lead to cholera, dysentery and other serious, even fatal diseases. Members of the community are stepping in to preserve dignity and public health, donating their time and money.
In Asheville, one person is making and distributing emergency toilets. Others are hauling water from pools and ponds to those in need.
Yet another water solution is coming from people who still have water — because they have a well. Erik Iverson lives near a well owned by an urban farm that wanted to help after the hurricane. He laid two 200-foot lengths of plastic PEX pipe to route the well water to the road for easy public access.
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