Mobile Home Residents Face Decades of Neglect in America’s Water Crisis

For millions of Americans who call mobile home parks their home, the basic right to clean and safe tap water remains elusive. Despite the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act promising protection from contaminants, a disturbing pattern of negligence by federal and state regulators has left these communities vulnerable to hazardous water conditions — a problem seldom acknowledged or addressed in Washington. How Can America Allow Cancer-Causing Contaminants to Flow Freely? The case of a rural Utah mobile home park tells a grim story: residents had been unknowingly consuming water contaminated with arsenic at levels up to ten times above federal...