Starting today, the undersea freshwater pipeline was officially supplying water, and the water tanks on the island had been filled again. According to the water supply agreement signed by the Ring Island Governor's Office and the Fries Port City Hall, imported freshwater cost only 0.8 silver coins per ton! Residential and industrial water prices on Ring Island would return to what they had been before the current power station was destroyed, and there would no longer be a monthly water-use limit.
Reported by the Baiyue Strait branch of the Survivor Daily!
The Survivor Daily had recently opened a branch in Fries Port as well, though the newspaper office was not large—just a small wooden shack of twenty or thirty square meters.
Its director was a Moon Tribe girl named Misa. Before the Xilan Dynasty began purging the Moon Tribe, she had been a teacher.
After learning about the Survivor Daily, she decided to establish a branch in Fries Port too, reporting local curiosities and major news, promoting cultural exchange among the various peoples, and incidentally helping her Moon Tribe compatriots improve their literacy.
Some things did not necessarily have to wait until literacy rates improved before being done. On the contrary, doing them was precisely what gave people more motivation to actively seek knowledge.
As for the Survivor Daily's admission standards, they were quite loose. So long as one swore to speak from the standpoint of all survivors, one could gain recognition from the other branches and Dawn City headquarters. There was no need for an official rubber stamp bestowed by some administrator to be considered "legitimate."
Of course, if one day a branch no longer stood on the side of survivors, Dawn City headquarters and the other branches would issue another statement expelling it from their ranks and cease