‘We’ve always known ours was contaminated’: the trouble with America’s water

Ageing infrastructure, legacy pollution and emerging contaminants across the US are driving a growing urgency to do something about America's water crisis

• This article is co-published with Ensia

Once a week, Florencia Ramos makes a special trip to the market in Lindsay, California. If you don't have clean water, you have to go get some," says Ramos, a farm worker and mother of four who lives in the neighboring Central Valley town of El Rancho.

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