Underground Maze - Part 1
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Most of us don't think much about having clean water - it's there everyday on demand ..as much as we want or need. It's vital to our public health and economic development. Yet there are warnings about our recreational use of Central Indiana's White River... something called combined sewer overflows are not what you'd want to play in or drink... but the river is a major source of our drinking water.
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