‘The dead zone’: Drinking water in these major cities may soon become toxic

About half of US water ‘too polluted’ for swimming, fishing or drinking, report finds

“More than 700,000 miles of waterways, accounting for about 51 percent of assessed river and stream miles, remain impaired with pollution. That’s in addition to another 55 percent of lake acres and 26 percent of estuary miles.”

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‘The dead zone’: Drinking water in these major cities may soon become toxic

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