Until recently, the residents of West Virginia spent very little time worrying about their abundant supply of fresh mountain water. But now a week after Elk River chemical spill that left 300,000 West Virginians without water, what comes out of the faucet has become a number one priority. How does the rest of America feel about their water—do we as a nation trust in the tap? For a snapshot of what the water is like in three different regions of the U.S., The Takeaway welcomes Jennifer Weidhaas, assistant professor of Environmental Engineering at West Virginia University; Mark Davis, director of the Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy at Tulane University Law School; and David Soll, Assistant Professor in the Watershed Institute for Collaborative Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. How did America’s water system get the way it is today? Martin Melosi, author of The Sanitary City and professor of history at the University of Houston, explains.
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