The Right to Know: Groundwater Contamination in Wisconsin's Farm Country

Film Synopsis

In America’s Dairyland, many families only learn that the water coming from their wells is toxic once it’s far too late. The Right to Know follows people living with nitrate and bacterial contamination caused by factory farming, and shows how knowing what’s in your water can be a matter of life and death.

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