Editor’s Note: This is the fourth story in a series titled “Stirring the Waters,” focused on the lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. Read the full series here.  Everyone deserves reliable access to clean water for drinking, cooking and washing, but that’s often not […]

Editor’s Note: This is the third story in a series titled “Stirring the Waters,” focused on the lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. Read the full series here.  Jessica and Tim Taylor’s prayers seem to have paid off. The rain came. It filled […]

Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a series titled “Stirring the Waters,” focused on the lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. Read the full series here.  Joanna Bailey remembers crowding around the kitchen table with her family, carefully sticking stamps on […]

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of reports produced through a collaborative effort by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Charleston Gazette-Mail, coordinated by The GroundTruth Project and its new initiative, Report for America, a national service program made possible in rural Appalachia with […]