“Ew James, Is That You?”: Water in the River City
        
         
        
        
          
          
          
           
        
        
      
        
     
        
        In October 1981, many Virginian cities along the James River opened their taps to find water with a “rusty, swampy, generally unpleasant odor.”1 After closing…
Jessi BennettFebruary 3, 2025
 
				
