Most of Akiachak’s nearly 700 people began getting modern plumbing for the first time this spring and summer — and finding their lives transformed.
Joseph Moses, left, and and Thomas Noatak attach a honey bucket to an ATV before traveling to the village landfill, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, in Akiachak, Alaska. Joseph and Thomas collect and remove garbage and human waste from village streets each morning.
All that’s changing in Akiachak, where most of the village’s nearly 700 people began getting modern plumbing for the first time this spring and summer — and finding their lives transformed. Native infants in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are hospitalized at five times the national rate for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, according to the Yukon-Kuskokim Health Corp., which provides services for this region about 400 miles west of Anchorage. The hospitalization rate for pneumonia is 11 times higher for Alaska Native children from villages without plumbed water.
Before getting running water, those residents had to haul water from the river or laundry to their home or collect rainwater. The village landfill site, sits near the Akiachak cemetery, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, in Akiachak, Alaska. Mary Lou Beaver grew up in Akiachak, packing water from the river as a girl, collecting rainwater and using an outhouse. Now retired from teaching and living in Anchorage, Beaver — who was visiting her old village to help relatives after a death — is glad that those memories will become relics of the past.“Why did it take so long?” she asked.
The entire project is important not only to this generation but also to the ones that follow because brushing teeth, taking baths and doing dishes will become normalized, leading to healthier communities, said Robert Sitton, a superintendent on the construction project for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.
Vera, manager of the Akiachak village wash-a-teria, uses a cell phone while keeping watch over washing machines, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, in Akiachak, Alaska. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium workers install side paneling for a lift house on Qugtuliaq Road, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, in Akiachak, Alaska.
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