TY  - CHAP
AB  - In 1990, testing revealed the existence of benzene in the municipal water supply of a community named Three Lakes, a residential subdivision of Houston, Texas. The water was quickly changed to a clean supply, but residents were not notified that there had been a problem until five months later. This provoked much anger within the community, along with concerns over present and future health problems. A grassroots group formed in response to this problem, but lasted only one year. The failure of this social movement organization left community residents to fend for themselves. In the words of one resident, the community reacted “like someone stepping on an anthill – everyone running in different directions.”
VL  - 14
SN  - 978-0-7623-1371-6, 978-1-84950-460-7/0196-1152
DO  - 10.1016/S0196-1152(06)14006-5
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-1152(06)14006-5
AU  - Couch Stephen R.
AU  - Mercuri Anne E.
ED  - Michael R. Edelstein
ED  - Maria Tysiachniouk
ED  - Lyudmila V. Smirnova
PY  - 2007
Y1  - 2007/01/01
TI  - Toxic Water and the Anthill Effect: The Development of a Subculture of Distress in a Once Contaminated Community
T2  - Cultures of Contamination
T3  - Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 117
EP  - 137
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -