Tuluksak desperate for a source of drinking water almost 2 weeks after fire destroyed water plant Share on Facebook Print article It’s been almost two weeks since the Tuluksak water plant burned down, leaving the Southwest Alaska village without clean, locally sourced drinking water. For now, residents are making do with bottled water delivered by plane, hauling water or ice several miles from the Kuskokwim River and using water from the nearby Tuluksak River to wash clothes and dishes. It rained in Tuluksak over the weekend and Melony Allain, the village’s tribal administrator, said she collected the rainwater to use for her family’s water supply.