Couple Helping Supply Clean Water to Haiti Joe and Jenny Smith Put Pottery Skills to Life-Saving Use After Earthquake

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As international efforts continue to heal, feed and shelter victims of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000 Haitians and displaced millions more, an Evansville couple are helping supply clean drinking water.

Five days after the Jan. 12 earthquake struck, Joe and Jenny Smith flew from St. Louis to work with Potters For Peace, an organization that teaches locals to make, assemble and distribute inexpensive ceramic filters that provide families with safe drinking water now and for years to come.

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Couple Helping Supply Clean Water to Haiti Joe and Jenny Smith Put Pottery Skills to Life-Saving Use After Earthquake

Even before the earthquake, illnesses and death from dirty water plagued Haiti, one of the worldOs poorest countries.

The situation is critical now and will become worse, the Smiths said. A volunteer physician told them, OFor all we can do...

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