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The Toledo Water Crisis: How Big Agriculture poisoned a whole city's water supply

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August 10, 2024

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In 2014, the city of Toledo, Ohio, lost access to its water supply for three days straight due to a massive, toxic algal bloom caused by runoff from industrial animal farming. Documentary filmmaker Mike Balonek explains the root causes of the Toledo Water Crisis of 2014 and the ongoing threat Big Agriculture poses to all of us.

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