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Ate it -'�� A5' <br />cot eali o� b` � 4 <br />New York Times article dated November 3rd, 2018 <br />titled "Rural America's Own Private Flint: <br />Polluted Water Too Dangerous to Drink <br />ARMENIA, Wis. — The groundwater that once <br />ran cool and clean from taps in this Midwestern <br />farming town is now laced with contaminants <br />and fear. People refuse to drink it. They won't <br />brush their teeth with it. They dread taking <br />showers. <br />Rural communities call it their own, private <br />Flint — a diffuse, creeping water crisis tied to <br />industrial farms and slack regulations that for <br />years has tainted thousands of residential wells <br />across the Midwest and beyond. <br />The contamination of the water in this article is <br />itrates. The EPA states that only loppm is a <br />human health risk. The article states "When they <br />keep cutting enforcement and people, there's nobody <br />to keep track of what's happening." <br />Now granted this is farm animal poop, but 're ; fl (ay' <br />pretty certain the aquafer does not care whose <br />/V9-/ <br />