Rather than drink tap water delivered through community water systems, thousands of families living in south Texas "colonias," low-income peri-urban and rural subdivisions on the US-Mexico border, rely on private water vending machines.  My recent study discovered that over 87% of the surveyed colonias households relied on 50% or more of drinking water from the water …

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