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    Replanting Our National Forests

    Where does your water come from?

    By Sheereen Othman | August 3, 2017

    Clean water is often taken for granted, until we’re faced with a tampered water supply. There are numerous cases in recent years where critical water sources are threatened. Toledo, Ohio shut down its water supply after poisonous algae toxins developed in Lake Erie. In North Carolina, a storage basin failure at a Duke Energy power plant sent more than 35,000 tons of coal ash flowing into the Dan River, a major drinking water source. And then there’s the Flint water crisis,…

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