Mark your calendars for Tuesday, July 14 from 5:30-6:30 PM for an enlightening, educational talk at the Bridgeport Public Library. We welcome Rev. Caitlin Ware to talk about the southern West Virginia water crisis.

 

Registration for this all-ages event is open on the library’s website: HERE.

 

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.

 

Rev. Caitlin Ware will be at the library to discuss the problems and what communities are doing to obtain safe drinking water. 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 in Taylor County.