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Water Inequality

By AAN Staff
february 25, 2003  11:09 am
Water Inequality
State and local governments have known about it for 15 years. So why are Hopkins residents still living with gasoline-tainted water? Columbia Free Times' Amanda Presley looks into the lack of action on the potentially toxic water in rural Hopkins, S.C., which is predominantly black and low-income. "Rosa Nowell, who used to live in a home where [a state agency] found contamination, asks how long the wells have been affected. It’s a question no one at the meeting can answer. 'That’s where I raised my children, from babies,' Nowell says. 'We were there.'”
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