For Matthew Parenteau, a neighbor’s warning when he moved into an Ohio mobile home park now shapes an expensive, frustrating routine: getting drinking water delivered, showering somewhere else, and dealing with a water bill close to $400.
The complaint highlights a painful contradiction for renters and mobile home park residents alike: paying more for a basic service they say they cannot use safely or comfortably.
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Parenteau told 13ABC that concerns about the water at Arrowhead Lake Mobile Home Park in Swanton, Ohio, have continued through the three years he has lived there.
“When I first moved in here, somebody came up to me and said, ‘Don’t drink the water,'” Parenteau said…