Southern WV Water Crisis w/ Rev. Caitlin Ware (All Ages)
Location: Event Space
Tuesday, July 14
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Reverend Caitlin Ware will be leading an educational talk on the water crisis of Southern West Virginia. Join us to learn how these communities are fighting for safe, clean water.
West Virginia's Southern Coalfield Water Crisis
For decades, the nine southernmost counties of West Virginia have lost fire services, experienced skin burns, and consumed unsafe, discolored drinking water. Residents are paying the nation's highest water bills for systems that have the most public water violations in America. We'll discuss the problems and what communities are doing to obtain safe drinking water.
Rev. Caitlin Ware is a United Methodist pastor appointed to two churches in Jackson County and to the southern coalfields of West Virginia. She is the co-director of From Below, a McDowell County based justice group working to obtain safe drinking water in West Virginia's nine southern coalfield counties. Caitlin is originally from Flemington, Taylor County.
Bridgeport Public Library
The Bridgeport Public Library is located in Bridgeport, WV. The City of Bridgeport began providing financial support for the library in the mid-1970s. The library was then located on the top floor of the Benedum Civic Center on Main Street. In 1994 the citizens and businesses of Bridgeport raised over 1.3 million dollars to purchase and renovate the Allstate Insurance building on Johnson Avenue. It then became the Bridgeport Public Library. The library offers a variety of services and resources including books, eBooks, audiobooks, movies, music, magazines, online databases, and more!