TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Ulysse BELLIER: "With the Mississippi River at an all-time low, Louisiana's drinking water supply is in jeopardy"
Kindra Arnesen (L), Larry Louviere (C), and Cathy Vodopija confront Plaquemines parish representatives about the salt water intrusion in their drinking water at a community event in Buras, Louisiana on October 18, 2023. Residents of the Plaquemines parish were forced to cook, drink, and sometimes bathe with bottled water after the Mississippi river dropped below sea level, forcing large amounts of saltwater to flow up river and into the community water lines contaminating the drinking water. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)