ASHLEY BOUDET

Most people never step inside a municipal water plant. To them, the place might as well be the engine room of a ship they depend on but never see, pipes, basins, concrete, chemistry, and quiet professionals moving through a world…

People rarely think about their drinking water until the day something goes wrong. A brown faucet, a news alert, a whispered rumor in a neighborhood Facebook group, suddenly the invisible world that keeps society alive becomes a source of fear.…