Memphis may have the sweetest water in the world, but toxic waste could ruin it all – a comic

Across a cluster of low-income, mostly Black neighborhoods, toxic waste sites risk contaminating an aquifer and endangering the lives of residents with noxious emissions

This article was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a non-profit dedicated to support reporting on American financial struggle.

Hundreds of feet below the city of Memphis, Tennessee, an enormous collection of freshwater - known as the Memphis Sand Aquifer - provides drinking water for at least a million residents.