Carmen Lugo has lived in Puerto Rico her whole life, and her whole life she has feared the water that comes out of her tap.
“When I was a child, we used filters,” she says, leaning on the doorjamb with her 11-year-old in front of her and two teenage sons sleepy-eyed behind her on a morning in July.
“The water here,” she says, pausing as she purses her lips in a tight smile. She chooses her words carefully. “We want to be in good health,” she finally says. “My husband, he buys water from the Supermax,” referring to a local grocery store.
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