When Duane Walters moved to a house in Hampstead s Belvedere Plantation four years ago, one of the first things his neighbors talked about was the area’s poor water quality.
Since then, the water has left reddish rings in the shower and toilets of his rental house, and the faucets have been clogged with black “sludge,” Walters said.
That s caused him to worry about the safety of consuming the water.
“If it’s doing that, what is it going to do to me if I’m drinking it?” he added.
Walters and his family don’t drink the water that comes out of their faucets. Instead, they drink and cook with bottled water that they buy in packs of 40. Their family dog doesn’t even drink water straight from the faucet.