For families in Sand Branch, a historic freedmen’s settlement just outside Dallas, access to clean running water remains out of reach.
People there have depended on donated bottled water for drinking, bathing, and other everyday needs, The Dallas Express reported.
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According to the Express, Sand Branch is an unincorporated Dallas County community of about 150 people, founded in 1878, that has never had a municipal running-water system.
The community relied on well water, but testing found the groundwater unsafe to drink…