What Lies Upstream

What Lies Upstream (2017)

January 20th, 20171h 29min

Documentary
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Overview

In this detective story, filmmaker Cullen Hoback investigates the largest chemical drinking water contamination in a generation. But something is rotten in state and federal regulatory agencies, and through years of persistent journalism, we learn the shocking truth about what’s really happening with drinking water in America.


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