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McDowell County residents collect donated water during a water distribution at Five Loaves and Two Fishes Food Bank on Saturday, March 6, 2021, in Kimball, West Virginia.
“In Deep”: Small Town, Big Struggles
This week on
Inside Appalachia, we hear a radio documentary from the podcast “In Deep.” The show, which is produced by APM Reports, takes a look at the water infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky. The county is dependent on coal and is currently dealing with the consequences of failing water infrastructure.
Tackling The Issue From All Angles
In McDowell County, West Virginia, the pipes are so bad that many people don’t have running water at home. A local food bank is working with a California-based non-profit and the local utility company to bridge the water gap. They’re trying new technologies, repairing the old ones and setting up standalone systems.
Wikipedia commemorates 20 years with special focus on Africa
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Wikipedia, an online site for sharing knowledge, is celebrating the 20th anniversary since its inception in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The site, which is widely described as the online encyclopedia, has more than 56 million articles in 321 languages.
This year’s anniversary has been marked by highlighting one of the biggest criticisms of the site;
The lack of information about Africa.
To address this problem, Wikipedia has worked with Adama Sanneh, co-founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, and thousands of young people across the continent to add more information about the dozens of countries and cultures across Africa.
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