‘I’m scared of getting sick from the water’
Some rural California communities have waited nearly a decade for state regulators to repair their tainted drinking-water systems.
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Cheryl and Edward Blackhawk outside their home in El Adobe, California.
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Cheryl Blackhawk with one of her horses on their property in El Adobe.
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The faucet at Cheryl Blackhawk’s home that she uses to give her horses drinking water.
Martin do Nascimento for the California Health Report