It’s 2021. Alaskans video chat with smart phones, pay bills with strokes on a keyboard, turn off lights with virtual assistants and yet remarkably, 3,300 rural households still use five-gallon honey ...
Water hookups come to Alaska Yup’ik village, and residents are thrilled to ditch their honey buckets
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 ...
AKIACHAK — Sanitation workers Thomas Noatak and Joseph Moses start every workday riding a four-wheeler along the muddy roads of this small Yup’ik village on Southwest Alaska’s vast Kuskokwim River, ...
Instead of using a bathroom, people retire to a room in a house, pull a curtain and use a honey bucket — typically a 5-gallon bucket with a toilet seat on top and a plastic bag inside. Instead of ...
Water hookups come to Alaska Yup’ik village, and residents are thrilled to ditch their honey buckets
AKIACHAK, Alaska — Sanitation workers Thomas Noatak and Joseph Moses start every workday riding a four-wheeler along the muddy roads of this small Yup’ik village on southwestern Alaska’s vast ...
Water hookups come to Alaska Yup’ik village, and residents are thrilled to ditch their honey buckets
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AKIACHAK, Alaska (AP) — Sanitation workers ...
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