When you think of people without clean drinking water you likely think of Flint, Michigan, but southern Cumberland County is dealing with contaminated water issues of its own.
Dozens of people near the Chemours plant are still living off bottled water.
Frances Minshew should be enjoying her golden years but instead, she’s trying to figure out how to survive them.
"It’s like camping out, camping out in a house.
You know how it feels when you’re in a camper?
Actually, it’s worse," said Minshew Last year, GenX leaked out of the Chemours plant and into the Cape Fear River, a well water source for residents nearby.
Since then, Minshew has been living on bottled water after the DEQ found high levels of Gen-X in her well.
"It scares me to death because I just had cancer," said Minshew.
However, that’s easier said than done.
"If you forget to use the bottles you end up messing up something like if you’re cooking sometimes I forget and pour sink water in there, " said Minshew.

Health officials are asking residents of the Village of Glencoe to boil their water after a water main break may have allowed contaminated water to enter the municipal water supply.
"The community shouldn’t be using tap water until the advisory is lifted," said Fatih Sekercioglu, Environmental Health Manager with the Middlesex-London Health Unit.
He said it’s important the water is brought to a rolling boil before using it to make everything from ice cubes to a cup of coffee.
At the Embassy Restaurant, staying on top of the water boil advisory is a job in itself.
The advisory will likely be in effect for the next couple of days.
She worried about an elderly friend who wouldn’t be able to cart her own water to and fro.
"I always have bottled water, but not everybody does," said Magee, who wound up buying a few cases at a nearby grocery store.
By the time grocery manager Laurie Bogart arrived for her shift, the store was picked clean of one-litre, one-and-a-half litre and four-litre bottles of water.
Blackmore said his staff have ordered another skid of bottled water, and will also pick up extra cases of water at a nearby Costco.
Residents will be allowed more than four bottles of water Tuesday if they explain why they need them, he said.

Residents have been lining up to get cases of free bottled water in a Kalamazoo County community.
The problem also affects some residents in Cooper Township on the same water supply.
“My concern is what was in the water and how did it get there?
And did they just now find it or has it been there?"
said Randy Johnson, who was picking up bottled water for the company he works for in Parchment.
High levels of some PFAS compounds have been linked to thyroid and kidney disease.
The state is supplying bottled water to residents affected by PFAS contamination while it looks for a long-term solution.
He says he has a lot of questions for state and county officials.
“First on my list would be, hey, if they could test my well, see if it is bad or not.
Nagel says his daughter is currently struggling with thyroid issues.

Papadopoulos put a plan in motion: to collect bottled water that will then be delivered to the Redding area to help out the fire relief effort.
Hunter Durrough, 17, a senior who plays quarterback for the Bulldogs gave a part of his summer break to help out to help the donation drive effort.
“I received a text message at 9 p.m. last night from ‘Pop’ who was looking for people to come out and do some community service for the people in Redding and I volunteered because I wanted to be involved more,” he said as he waited for the next donation to roll in.
Vacaville High senior, TJ Ruiz, 17, was manning the collection site when it started around 7 a.m. Monday.
One those community members was James Owens of Vacaville who pulled into the lot a little before 11 a.m. with a full pallet of bottled water or about 50 cases, each case containing 40 bottles of water.
Owens said that he saw the post and wanted to help.
“I had a birthday last week and got some gift cards and thought it was the best thing I could do,” Owens said as he helped unload the water from the bed of his pickup truck.
Brandon Talton, 17, a senior and the team’s placekicker, also answered the call to help.
“It was very cool to help other communities,” he said.
“It is very meaningful to see the city come together for people who are in need,” he added.

Residents in the affected area have been told not to drink or cook with the water but to use bottled water instead.
Many residents, including Debbie Hebnor, said their focus is now shifting to the health and safety of their pets.
"First thing I did was empty the dog dishes and ice cube trays.
I’m concerned because I can’t give them a bath because they are like little kids, they’ll swallow water," Hebnor said.
On day four of water distribution outside of Parchment High School concern and confusion continues to linger among residents.
They say it is a virus but I don’t know if it’s caused from this water he’s been drinking," she said.
The class of chemicals is causing headaches and anxiety among pet owners like Sharon and Bill Fike who don’t know what is considered safe.
Parchment veterinarian and wildlife biologist Charles Mehne is pressing pet owners to use bottled water to avoid exposure.
"Please don’t panic, bottled water orally, in the food and in the drinking dish should be sufficient to protect your animals," Mehne said.
"Rushing off to your veterinarian and having blood tests run is very premature."

islamabad – The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources on Monday declared five bottled water brands unfit for human consumption.
According to officials, from April to June, as many as 85 samples of mineral and bottled water brands were collected from different parts of the country.
Samples were taken from the areas of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Lahore, Bahawalpur, Tandojam, Quetta and Karachi.
After running different tests and comparison of analytical findings with permissible limits of Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority, five brands were found unsafe for drinking.
After careful analysis, the council found Gourmet, Aqua Super Life, Shiraz, Aqua Splash and Marina brands unsafe for consumption due to microbiological contamination.
Studies further disclosed that the contamination in the five above brands may cause cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis, typhoid and other infectious diseases.
Due to the unavailability of pure drinking water, a large population is left with no choice but to buy bottled water, especially during traveling.
As a consequence of this expanding market, a mushroom growth of bottled water industry in the country was witnessed during the last few years.
The PCRWR warned that many mineral/bottled water companies had been found selling contaminated water.
In order to have a check on bottled water, the government through the Ministry of Science and Technology has designated the task to the council for quarterly monitoring of bottled/mineral water brands and publicize the results.

PARCHMENT, Mich. — Charlotte Tinkey drove up to Parchment High School Monday morning to get two free cases of bottled water for her family.
Elevated levels of PFAs, or polyfluoroalkyl contaminants, were discovered in the water system.
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“Everyone’s coming together and helping each other out,” said 17-year-old Lucas Rock who drove in with his mother Lauren.
“It’s really quite amazing how people can just gather in a time of need.” Rock and his mom said the water issues didn’t affect their daily routine.
They’ve been drinking bottled water for years.
“It’s kind of an inconvenience,” said Robert Olendorf.
“It’s makes me wonder how long it’s been contaminated for before they found out because my boys are always drinking water and I am all the time.” City and state officials are hosting a Town Hall on Tuesday at 5pm at the Haven Reformed Church in Kalamazoo for anyone who may have questions.
They said they plan to distribute water for as long as needed, opening daily at Parchment High School from 12 p.m. – 8 p.m. “People are out here helping and these [cases] are heavy to lift,” Tinkey said.
“They’re out here with their time doing that and I thought ‘how amazing’.”

PARCHMENT, MI — In the wake Michigan declaring a state of emergency in Kalamazoo County, the distribution of bottled water to residents in Parchment and Cooper Township will continue Monday, July 30, though with more limited hours.
Officials estimate 3,100 residents are on Parchment’s city water system.
A test conducted by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality showed a level of total PFAS of 1,587 parts per trillion in Parchment’s municipal water supply.
Crews from the city of Kalamazoo continue to work with Parchment city officials to flush out Parchment’s tainted water system.
Both the city of Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo Township are using backup, reserve fire engines to flush the water, according to the update.
The flushing plan was developed cooperatively by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, city of Kalamazoo and city of Parchment, according to the county’s update.
Residents living in the city of Parchment and Cooper Township are encouraged to attend the meeting.
The meeting will include updates on the status of water response activities, and residents will have the opportunity to receive more information regarding PFAS substances, health impacts and plans for interim and long-term water supply solutions.
Results from tests of the three wells that feed Parchment’s water system are expected Monday, and will inform the next steps for local and state officials.
For more information regarding PFAS contamination in the Parchment area, residents can contact a hotline at 269-373-5346, answered by county health department staff from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Emergency response teams hand out free bottled water to residents at the Parchment High School in Parchment, Mich., Friday, July 27, 2018.
Authorities handed out thousands of free bottles of water Friday for two southwestern Michigan communities where the discovery of contamination from toxic industrial chemicals prompted a warning against using the public water system for drinking or cooking.
(Daniel Vasta/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP) The Associated Press PARCHMENT, Mich. (AP) — Thousands of cases of bottled water have been distributed in southwestern Michigan as two communities respond to a contaminated water supply.
Volunteers ranging from firefighters to high school students turned out Saturday in Parchment for a second day of free water distribution.
Tests revealed substances known as PFAS in water that’s used in Parchment and Cooper Township.
About 3,000 people on the affected water system have been told not to drink or cook with the water.
Separately, Kalamazoo County declared a local emergency, which could qualify the communities for state assistance.
A public meeting to discuss the water problem is scheduled for Tuesday at Haven Reformed Church.
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When Craig Franzmeier took over his family’s farm in Coates in central Dakota County, he inherited a pesky, decades-old problem: polluted well water, teeming with nitrates that likely spring from farm fertilizers seeping into the sandy soil.
State studies indicate that up to 55 percent of the private wells used by Coates residents may have nitrate levels above drinking water standards.
Rosemount gets its water from aquifers, as does Coates.
But the city has many wells and the water is safe, Rosemount Mayor Bill Droste said.
A county analysis shows that two out of three wells tested in Coates have nitrates above the standard.
Steve Scott, an environmental health specialist for Dakota County, agreed that there’s growing awareness of the gravity of nitrates and herbicides in groundwater.
Despite its growing suburbs, Dakota County still has a majority of its land — 52 percent — farmed for row crops like corn and soybeans, county officials said.
"We don’t know of any other place in the country where private drinking water wells are being tested for pesticides on a regular basis," said Jill Trescott, formerly the county’s groundwater protection supervisor.
Signs warn: Don’t drink it Franzmeier, who is Coates’ mayor, said his home has a filtering system to counter high nitrates.
Though he tests his water with the county yearly, he estimated that less than a third of Coates residents do the same.