Take a look at our first picture. Would you drink water that looked like this? Bathe in it? Give it to your children? The people of St. Joseph, Louisiana have no choice. That’s the water that has flowed from their taps for years now. Incredibly, up until recently, it was declared safe. Despite the 1,100 residents of this small, relatively impoverished town complaining for almost a decade about the state of the water that leaves clothes and towels streaked with rust-colored stains, officials insisted that it was safe to drink.
State of Emergency
Shortly before Christmas 2016, a state of Public Health Emergency was declared after elevated levels of lead and copper were found in samples, …