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16 Cities Sue Manufacturer Of Atrazine Weed-Killer For Contaminating Drinking Water
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Peacey says,
when I was in Arizona, they had fields all over the place and the water there tasted like fertilizer. I paid for the water $1.25 per 5 gallons. I refused to drink it.
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Article excerpt from huffingtonpost.com — "A coalition of communities in six Midwestern states filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to force the manufacturer of a widely-used herbicide to pay for its removal from drinking water. Atrazine, a weed-killer sprayed primarily on cornfields, can run off into rivers and streams that supply municipal water systems. As the Huffington Post...

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