I'm Afraid of That Water
Broschiertes Buch

I'm Afraid of That Water

A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis

Herausgeber: Lassiter, Luke Eric; Campbell, Elizabeth; Hoey, Brian A.
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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 hospitals--the water made available to as many as 300,000 citizens in a nine-county region--had been contaminated with a chemical used for cleaning crushed coal. This book tells a particular set of stories about that chemical spill and its aftermath, an unfolding water crisis that would lead to months, even...