Climate-driven flooding poses well water contamination risks | Michael Phillis & John Flesher / The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS—After a record-setting Midwestern rainstorm that damaged thousands of homes and businesses, Stefanie Johnson’s farmhouse in Blandinsville, Illinois, didn’t have safe drinking water for nearly two months. Flood water poured into her well, turning the water a muddy brown and forcing Johnson, her husband and their two young children…

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