Sunday, October 22, 2023
‘Everything out the faucet is salt’: Louisianans struggle as drinking water crisis persists
During a year of extreme weather, which has seen record heat and wildfiresin Louisiana, it is drought in America's midwest that has caused the latest climate-related disaster here. As freshwater flowing down the Mississippi River falls to dangerous lows, saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has pushed up into the channel, winding its way into public intake facilities and people's homes – making their drinking water unusable, damaging appliances and threatening to corrode ageing infrastructure...
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