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Selawik goes 'old school' after midwinter water, sewer system failure

A cold snap that settled over much of Alaska in January has sent an entire village more than a decade back in time. On Jan. 23 the entire water and sewer system froze in Selawik, a village just above the Arctic Circle on the Western Alaska coastline and home to more than 800 people, about half of whom are children and teens.

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