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>> reporter: chromium 6, also known as hexavalent chromium is used for making steel, paper, leather. it's been spewed into the air and has seeped into the groundwater, most infamously in hinkley, california. >> that stuff, it kills people. >> reporter: in a case made famous by the julia roberts movie "erin brockovich" pacific gas & electric made a settlement to hinkley residents who claimed the alarming number of cancers in town a decade ago were linked to drinking water contaminated from chromium-6 in a nearby plant. these days she's helping the people of midland, texas, uncover the source in their drinking water. >> in the long term for all of them they're terrified that they could come down with cancer. >> reporter: today no state regular regulates chromium-6 in drinking water. california is the only state to require testing for the compound. in glendale near l.a. the water works is looking for cost- effective ways to meet the stringent standards california

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