In Appalachia, Helene’s Water Crisis Taps a Global Christian Response

International Christian engineering nonprofit Water Mission usually responds to clean water crises overseas, like flooding in East Africa this year or the earthquake in Turkey last year.But when the South Carolina–based organization saw the extensive damage to Western North Carolina’s water infrastructure after the historic storm Helene, it decided to activate a rare disaster response in the US.“We’re able to take our systems and plug them in here,” said Brock Kreit