If you’ve been paying attention to environmental news lately, you might’ve caught something pretty alarming: California farms have been using millions of pounds of PFAS-containing pesticides every single year.

Clean water is a basic expectation in the United States, yet millions of Americans still live in areas with unsafe or unreliable drinking water. High-profile crises like Flint’s lead disaster grabbed national attention, but many other cities continue to struggle with contamination that stems from aging infrastructure, poor regulation, political conflict, or environmental injustice.

You expect Halloween to bring ghosts, monsters, and things that go bump in the night. But there’s a real horror that doesn’t wait for October 31st, it’s flowing straight from your tap.

When floods or earthquakes hit, they don’t just destroy homes, they also take out one of the most essential things we need to survive: clean water.