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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Phillis,Leah Willingham and Camille Fassett

When destitute small towns mean dangerous tap water

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Donna Dickerson’s heart would sink every time she’d wake up, turn on the faucet in her mobile home and hear the pipes gurgling.

Sometimes it would happen on a day when her mother, who is 86 and has dementia, had a doctor’s appointment and needed to bathe. Sometimes it would be on Thanksgiving or Christmas when family had come to stay.

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