Pat’s water is contaminated and has been tested positive for chemicals such as lead, arsenic, and barium, but she is not getting water delivered to her house. Although we visited with Pat on a school day, all four of her kids were home sick. She said they have been sick for three months, vomiting and with diarrhea. When Pat first found out her water was contaminated, she began to boil all the water they used. However, she quickly found out that boiling the water just makes it worse. Every week Pat goes grocery shopping, she fills one cart up with groceries and another one up with bottled water. She has to pay for all the water herself, and it gets very expensive. They use bottled water for almost everything: cooking, drinking, brushing their teeth. However, the family still has to shower in the contaminated water. Her eighteen year old daughter has red bumps and rashes all over her arms from showering in the water. Other families I talked with explained the same thing happening to their children who were showering in the water...
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