Alaska Receives Grants to Improve Water Quality

The US state of Alaska is to receive a $23.6m grant from the federal government to improve water quality in rural villages in the region.

The state received the grant following the signing of an MoU between rural development and programme partners to improve efforts to provide clean water and better sanitation services.

US agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack said that residents of the rural communities will now have running water for cooking, cleaning and laundry.

The government granted funds for several communities in the state including Old Kasigluk, which will use the money to construct a core water infrastructure.