MERRIMACK, N.H. - Democratic presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to connect with voters’ important issues on the ground — or, in some cases, underground. The U.S. senator from New York held two roundtable discussions Friday in New Hampshire communities struggling with contaminated water. “If you are in a low-income community or a community of colour, a lot of this environmental degradation follows you. “A purchaser can’t get a mortgage on a contaminated well,” she said. “I wait, and I struggle.” Gillibrand’s first discussion Friday was in Portsmouth, where decades of use of a toxic firefighting foam at a former military base contaminated wells later used by businesses and a day care facility.

Source: thestar March 15, 2019 21:50 UTC