There are 580 communities in Armenia where residents don’t have access to clean drinking water.
The village’s 63 households, 280 residents in all, get their drinking water from the local river.
75-year-old Liana Davoyan has lived in the village since 1960 and has never consumed clean water.
Davoyan is particularly concerned that the river water is bad for young people in the village.
“We drink river water.
It’s dirty.
And when it rains, the water is murky.
“The pipes are old and rotten.
Like others, Hounanyan collects the water in pails, letting it sit for hours before ladling water from the top to drink.
Residents have their fingers crossed that they’ll no longer have to deal with dead insects and sand in their drinking water by the new year.