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Amber Campos moves a pallet of bottled water from a semi-trailer truck at the loading dock of the H-E-B grocery store at in San Angelo on Tuesday. Many residents have been unable to use water from their faucets for days due to contamination. Credit: Colin Murphey/San Angelo Standard-Times via REUTERS Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Residents of San Angelo, a West Texas city in the Concho Valley, ha...

“Crisis upon crisis”: Industrial pollutants leave San Angelo residents without water as winter storm bears down Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  Amber Campos moves a pallet of bottled water from a semi-trailer truck at the loading dock of the H-E-B grocery store at in San Angelo on Tuesday. Many residents have been unable to use water from their faucets for days due to contamination. (Credit: Colin Murphey/San Angelo Standard-Times via REUTERS) , our daily newsletter that keeps readers up t...

In some areas of the West Texas city, the state found concentrations of benzene, a known carcinogen, to be 35 times the safe limit. For other chemicals identified in the water, no concentration is considered safe.