Xylem partners with Hometown H2O to install water well for retired Oregon couple

Special project brings water to couple who travels 40 miles for drinking water

For 34 years, Steve and Lana Gleason made due without a traditional residential water system. The couple, who live in the rural logging community of Jewell, Oregon, pumped water for washing from a nearby river and made 40-mile round trips from their home to haul drinking water from a spring.