On the day we visit Jeneyah McDonald, she has five pallets’ worth of bottled water in a corner of her kitchen.
“Oh, that’s low,” she says.
McDonald buys more every week for cooking, drinking and brushing teeth. She also has a filter on her tap. She checks the light to see it remains green.
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