My home community of Toledo, Ohio, which has water systems that serve a region of half a million to 750 million people plus businesses was shut off two and-a-half years ago for 3 days because a very wicked little toxin called microcystin that forms an algae got into the water system.
Kaptur discusses the water crisis in Toledo caused by toxic algae.
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