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Part One: Rural Sanitation in Alaska

Kivalina City Manager Janet Mitchell at the village landfill where people dispose of the contents of their honey-buckets. A few years ago, the landfill flooded during a storm. The water overran the landfill and flowed, spreading pollution, into a lagoon. (Photo-Joaqlin Estus)

Kivalina City Manager Janet Mitchell at the village landfill where people dispose of the contents of their honey-buckets (buckets used as toilets). A few years ago, the landfill flooded during a storm. The water overran the landfill spreading pollution into a lagoon. (Photo-Joaqlin Estus)

Today we begin a weeklong series on rural sanitation in Alaska. In part one, KNBA’s Joaqlin Estus reports on the impact water and lack of plumbing have on the health of people.

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