Despite being the world’s wealthiest nation, the U.S. has communities that are still exposed to toxic tap water. Today, we hear how a city in New Mexico has struggled with high levels of arsenic in its water — and how its residents are fighting back.
Joseph Monge fills a jug at a water station in El Paso, Tex., on March 27. Monge drives to buy water roughly twice a week, spending about $30 a trip, to provide clean water for his family and dogs so they don’t have to ingest arsenic from the tap water in New Mexico.
The city also reflects parts of the United States — low-income areas and Latino communities — that are particularly exposed to arsenic in their drinking water at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group, even when controlling for socioeconomic factors. Drinking water samples tested in Sunland Park, a small New Mexico city, found illegally high levels of arsenic in each of the past 16 years. In 2016, levels reached five times the legal limit.
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