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Alaska village facing water woes gets outside help

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska –  Residents of a small Alaska Native village facing a severe water shortage are monitoring every precious drop they use as they struggle to stretch their reserves as far into winter as possible, with help coming from as far away as Minnesota. "It's very, very clear that we won't have enough," Kivalina city administrator Janet Mitchell said. "But with our conservation efforts, we hope to get close enough." That Kivalina even has water at all is a testament to efforts involving multiple partners, including two Minnesota churches that donated at least $1,600 for fuel that was used to run the Inupiat Eskimo community's water treatment system. Other partners, including the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the Northwest Arctic Borough, coordinated efforts that led to the temporary repair of a three-mile pipeline that pulls water for the village from the Wulik River.

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Kivalina

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Jeremy Zidek

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0	"People took out their purses and checkbooks," he said. ...
0	"People took out their purses and checkbooks," he said. "We passed an offering around, and they filled the baskets."
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Janet Mitchell

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Relevance: 0.416263

Sentiment	Quote
0.172765	"It's very, very clear that we won't have enough," Kivalina city administrator Janet Mitchell said. ...
0.154342	"It's very, very clear that we won't have enough," Kivalina city administrator Janet Mitchell said. "But with our conservation efforts, we hope to get close enough."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.327107 Mean: 0.1635535 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Timothy Lundeen

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Gov. Sean Parnell

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Relevance: 0.274802

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Norm Eck

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Relevance: 0.24655

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0.0664303	"Otherwise, people can drink water when they want," said school district superintendent Norm Eck.
0.0574655	"Otherwise, people can drink water when they want," said school district superintendent Norm Eck. "And toilets have to flush."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1238958 Mean: 0.0619479 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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StateOrCounty: Alaska

Overall Sentiment: 0.0649423

Relevance: 0.62818

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StateOrCounty: Minnesota

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Relevance: 0.36146

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City: Kivalina

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City: ANCHORAGE

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Residents of a small Alaska Native village facing a severe water shortage are monitoring every precious drop they use as they struggle to stretch their reserves as far into winter as possible, w...

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