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Charlie Mae Holcombe, 71, who lives in the area,
现年71岁，也住在该地区的查理·梅·霍尔科姆表示，
said that the lack of sanitation accounts for the allergies, asthma and heart problems pervasive in the county.
正因为缺乏卫生设施，过敏、哮喘和心脏问题在该县十分普遍。
"Everyone's dying," she tells photographer Matt Black.
“每个人都是要死不活的，”她对摄影师马特·布莱克说道。
Hers is one of dozens of stories Black gathered as he documented America's water crisis for over a year.
布莱克用了一年的时间收集到了数十个有关美国用水危机的故事，霍尔科姆的故事就是其中之一。
For most Americans, water does not get a second thought.
对大多数美国人而言，水都是一个自然而然的东西。
It flows at the turn of a knob, at a cost that is all but negligible.
只要拧一下水龙头就会出来，几乎不费吹灰之力。
This is as it should be.
原本也应如此。
Being essential to life, clean water is a right under international law and U.N. declarations.
我们的生活离不开清洁用水，正因为如此，国际法和联合国的有关宣言都将清洁用水定义成了所有人应有的一项权利。
Yet in the U.S., it's far from guaranteed.
然而，在美国，这一权利远没有得到保障。
More than 30 million Americans lived in areas where water systems violated safety rules at the beginning of last year,
环保局数据显示。去年年初，
according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
仍有超3000万美国人生活在供水系统违反安全规定的地区。
Others simply cannot afford to keep water flowing.
其他人甚至连水费都负担不起。
As with basically all environmental and climate issues,
和几乎所有环境问题，气候问题一样，
poor people and minority communities are hit hardest.
受用水缺乏问题困扰最深的也是穷人和少数族裔社区。
In Denmark, S.C., local officials added the untested chemical HaloSan to drinking water,
在南卡罗来纳州丹麦市，为了去除饮用水中存在的铁锈样的沉积物，
intending to combat rust-like deposits but leaving residents to deal with a slew of unexplained skin ailments.
当地官员便往饮用水中添加了未经测试的化学物质HaloSan，结果却让居民们染上了各种莫名其妙的皮肤病。
Suspicious of the water, Eugene "Horseman" Smith and his wife Pauline Ray Brown have collected samples for a decade,
抱着怀疑的心态，尤金·“骑士”史密斯和妻子波琳·雷·布朗开始收集当地的水样，一收集就是10年，
sharing them with scientists and an attorney.
他们将收集到的样本共享给了科学家和一位律师。
"Denmark is like a third-world country," says Smith.
“丹麦像个第三世界国家一样，”史密斯说。
In Inez, Ky., residents still battle the remnants of millions of gallons of toxic sludge,
肯塔基州的伊内兹居民面对的则是数百万加仑的有毒污泥，
replete with arsenic and mercury, that leaked into the water two decades ago.
那些淤泥富含砷和汞，还是20年前泄漏到他们的水系统里的。
Locals face liver and kidney damage, as well as increased risk of cancer.
当地居民不仅罹患癌症的风险增加了，肝脏和肾脏也受到了损害。
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