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A different story. the water samples contain plastic fibers the filter has caught the fine filaments there up to five hundred of them in each bucket of water. i really was this lot expecting reason to lie i threw the bucket in at the front thinking it was going to find nothing and to find some items shocking just changes the way i think about things. it's widely known that there are a large quantities of plastic deb refloating in the world's oceans but the spotlight of research is now increasingly turning to micro plastic fibers. birds and other marine animals often die after ingesting larger ...

Grilled mahi sticks and shrimp marinated in chili sauce. homemade sourdough bread, a roasted beet salad. >> woman in orange: oh, my gosh. look at that salad, it's so purple and it has avocado in it. >> anthony: what cannot be fresh is nonetheless delicious. edamame's salad with dried cranberries and carrots. roasted vegetables, one might find oneself enjoying a cocktail or two. this is an amazing spread. >> woman in orange: i know. >> anthony: what are you guys doing here? what are you looking for? >> woman in orange: i'm collecting water samples in the streams and i'm also collecting samples ...

She says the stomach pains started about two weeks ago and she's trying to ignore them. do you think it has something to do with the water? she doesn't know for sure, but she thinks it might have something to do with the water she's drinking. it's impossible to know for sure if the stomach pains are related, but when we went back to the water wells today, a different scene. puerto rican officials had stationed guards at the we will sites to prevent more people from accessing the potentially con tm natured water wells. >> what do we know about the a testing timeline? >> we were told by epa offi...

Distribute the food to the people of the island. >> let's go do id lavandera. some island residents are so desperate, i understand, they're drinking potentially contaminated water from a toxic cleanup site? >> we spent some considerable amount of time over the last couple days investigating this, this is an area in a town called dorado, just west of san juan. epa officials spent the weekend gathering water samples from a half dozen water wells on what is known as a super fund site. these are sites designated by the epa, as some of the most contaminated pieces of land in the country. since the ...

Investigate the potentially toxic drinking water in puerto rico. ed lavandera has more on this. >> reporter: some puerto ricans are so desperate to find water here on the island that they start tapping into wells on what is described as a super fund site, an official designation issued by the environmental protection agency, superfund sites exist all over the country, considered some of the most toxic sites and ground areas in the united states. here in puerto rico alone, there is 18 of these designated s ed superfund sites. the focus is west of san juan, the capital here of this island, we we...