‘Tip of the spear.’ As customers beg for clean water, is a crisis looming in Appalachia?

By Will Wright

wwright@herald-leader.com
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Stirring the Waters

The lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia is stirring a public debate over the crisis and prompting calls to fix a long-failing infrastructure.

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/watchdog/article221701865.html#stor…

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