Gene and his son toured the power plant, the school. They went subsistence fishing with a weighted setnet and skiff. The 300 villagers, primarily Yup'ik, have no central water or sewer systems, and they still use honey buckets. They're working on a modified system where each house would have a holding tank. For drinking water, they collect rain water into tanks.
Nothing is easy.
I was impressed by the over-all condition of their school facility. The staff there takes pride in the school and works hard to maintain it. The school has its own electrical generation, water and sewer system. Water is collected from the roof and pumped into two large storage tanks. As a result, if the summer and fall rains are not heavy enough, snow and ice must be brought into the school each night to melt so that water is available to prepare the next day's breakfast and lunch meals.