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Riley Moore: “In McDowell county, families spend more than $100 a month on…”

Featuring: Riley Moore, Republican | U.S. House West Virginia, District 2

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Rep. Moore Speaks on West Virginia's Water Crisis, Addressing the Southern Coalfields

Published | Video Starts at 01:34

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. In McDowell county, families spend more than $100 a month on bottled water because they do not have access to water any other way. Addressing this crisis will require years of sustained effort across federal, state and local agencies and the Army Corps of Engineers. They do play a role in this. (01:34–01:44)

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States that families in McDowell County spend over $100 monthly on bottled water due to lack of access.

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