Riley Moore: “A quarter million residents rely on untreated springs on…”

“In one six month period in late 2024 and early 2025, the state issued more than 10 boil water advisories per day. Per day. A quarter million residents rely on untreated springs on private wells because they have no alternative at all. And I'd been one under one of those Boyle advisories several times when I lived in southern West Virginia. The crisis is most severe in the southern coalfield counties.” (01:16–01:25)

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