Tainted water flowed to these Texans’ homes for three years. No one told them.

A playa — or flood plain — borders a neighborhood in South Midland on Feb. 1. For three years, residents from the neighborhood outside city limits consumed well water laced with traces of arsenic. The well can be seen in the bottom right of the flood plain. (Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune)

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