For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn’t a given
Cases of bottled drinking water are stored under a kitchen counter in the home of Agustin and Ricarda Toledo in Oasis, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The worst water Colt Smith has seen in 14 years with Utah’s Division of Drinking Water was at a mobile home park, where residents had been drinking it for years before state officials discovered the contamination.
The well water carried cancer-causing arsenic as much as 10 times the federal limit. Smith had to put the rural park under a do-not-drink order that lasted nearly 10 years.
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