Survive

 Washington Post: How Asheville residents survive without running water, weeks after Helene - “You don’t realize how important water is until you don’t have it,” said one of thousands of North Carolinians still without a water supply after Hurricane Helene. By Sarah Kaplan, Brady Dennis and Scott Dance

It is likely to still be weeks or months before taps in this part of Appalachia begin flowing with clean, potable water. The hurricane demolished key components of a system that serves about 160,000 households in and around Asheville.