How Benton Harbor residents are living with lead water crisis: "I've never trusted the drinking water"
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Thanksgiving for the Brewer family looked different this year. Monique Brewer typically cooks collard greens for them, but this year, she emptied several water bottles into a pot to boil them, instead of using water from her sink.
But getting the water is half the battle. The 39-year-old resident in Benton Harbor, Michigan, must leave her medical assistant job early to pick up the cases from a city-funded distribution site in time.
"Do you know how many bottles of water it takes to make a pot of water to make some food?" Monique told CBS News. "I went through a 12-pack of water just for my greens to boil. It's rough out here."
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