Easing the water crisis in West Virginia.
Diane Farmer never used to think about the water, which had always been plentiful and clean, flowing from her family’s well in Leckie, W.Va. When she married in 1974, she and her husband built a house on the family property and a generation later, one of their children did the same. She didn’t imagine then what it would be like to grow old in McDowell County today, without clean water.
“We buy gallons of bottled water to drink, to do dishes…we do not even give our animals our well water,” she explained.
