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Rural towns face challenges to provide clean drinking water

In rural farming regions, dangerous chemicals from fertilizer have made their way into water sources. For some towns, it takes millions of dollars just to get clean water for a few hundred residents.

David Condos of the Kansas News Service reports.

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