Joey Mendolia

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www.joeymendolia.com

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Location: Denver, CO

Nationality: United States of America

Biography: Award-winning and Emmy nominated multimedia journalist (RTDNA, SPJ, AP, & Alaska Press Club) with experience covering climate resilience and environmental stories in Alaska, as well as running the video news department of Indiana public Media... MORE

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Public Story

Bringing Water to Lower Kalskag

Copyright Joey Mendolia 2024

Updated Jan 2024

Location Lower Kalskag, Alasksa

Topics Isolation, Journalism, Landscape, Multimedia, Nature, Perspectives, Video, Water

Lower Kalskag is a village of just under 300 people in western Alaska near the much larger community of Bethel (7,000 people). Until recently, most every house in the village did not have running water. No long hot showers, no quick glass of water from the sink, no flushing toilets. To get water, villagers walk to the local river, pack water into large containers, and haul them back home.

But in 2019, as part of a large infrastructure upgrade, piping was finally installed to transport water throughout Lower Kalskag. In this video we talk to residents about how they expect their lives to change with running water.

This video was awarded Best Use of Videography by the Associated Press.