[CPEO-BIF] "South-side Tucsonans [AZ] mobilize for another water-pollution struggle"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

South-side Tucsonans mobilize for another water-pollution struggle

by Tony Davis 
Arizona Daily Star
April 17, 2017

South-sider Linda Robles describes her last decade as a procession of family illness. She says she’s lost a daughter to lupus and seen the illness strike two of her other seven children. She’s had a daughter and a grandson born with a cleft lip. Last year, her ex-husband was diagnosed with a cancerous kidney tumor.

Now, Robles is on the front line of an impending legal conflict over whether contaminated water has caused these and many other ailments that she and other residents say are occurring there. Robles, who has lived in that area for most of her 55 years, is organizing an effort to gather hundreds of written legal claims alleging that water contamination is causing illness in the area — claims that could ultimately lead to a lawsuit.

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For the entire article, see
http://tucson.com/news/local/south-side-tucsonans-mobilize-for-another-water-pollution-struggle/article_25aafd92-3a5a-5550-bbd6-9fc0d02cd0dd.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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