I'm Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis
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Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction
On January 9, 2014, residents across Charleston, West Virginia, awoke to an unusual licorice smell in the air and a similar taste in the public drinking water. That evening residents were informed the tap water in tens of thousands of homes, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of schools and hospitalsthe water made available to as many as 300,000 citizens in a nine-county regionhad been contaminated with a chemical used for cleaning crushed coal.
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On January 9, 2014, residents across Charleston, West Virginia, awoke to an unusual licorice smell in the air and a similar taste in the public drinking water. That evening residents were informed the tap water in tens of thousands of homes, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of schools and hospitalsthe water made available to as many as 300,000 citizens in a nine-county regionhad been contaminated with a chemical used for cleaning crushed coal.
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