Water. It’s something most of us take for granted.
Not on the Tuscarora Reservation where wells are often contaminated with chemicals found in gasoline or bacteria leaching from septic systems.
Once a month, a group of community volunteers gathers at the Tuscarora Community Health Center to distribute a few pallets of bottled water.
Kateri Serpas works in a program at the health center, focused on women’s health care. She was there Saturday with coworker Patti Fisher.
“Most of the well water out