THIS PROJECT WAS SUPPORTED
BY THE PULITZER CENTER
INEQUALITY| ENVIRONMENT
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MILLIONS OF AMERICANS LACK SAFE ACCESS
TO LIFE’S MOST ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT
BY JUSTIN WORLAND| PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATT BLACK FOR TIME
DENMARK, S.C.
Water samples collected
over a decade by Eugene
“Horseman” Smith, 74,
and his wife Pauline
Ray Brown, 77; the
couple began collecting
the water and having it
tested when they started
to suspect, correctly,
that it was contaminated