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Hale Freezes Over

In Hale County, Alabama, many residents have gone without running water for days. Many more are still boiling water.

Price of Poverty: Buy-a-Meter

When you brushed your teeth this morning or took a shower, did water come out of the faucet? You probably didn't give it a second thought. For some though, even here in Alabama, water is far from a guarantee. As we continue our series The Price of Poverty, WBHM's Andrew Yeager takes us to Hale County in the black belt, a place where seeing to it that everybody has clean, reliable water has been a bit like swimming upstream.

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