A man carries a plastic vessel of drinking water. Many houses on Ebeye do not have running water and most of its 13,000 plus population has to use rain water from water collection tanks or fetch it from a nearby fresh water pumping station. For one hour at a time every other day fresh water is pumped into the pipe delivery system to each section of the island at a time. Many houses have tanks that are used to store water between pumping episodes.
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