Word: francisca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman in a subdivision named Country Green tells of well water so cruddy that it broke her washing machine three times. Outside a small house near by, Francisca Jimenez, mother of eight, casts an eye south toward the Mexican countryside she left eleven years ago. "I was better off there than my children. At least we never lacked for water or sewer." Illness in the colonias is running at Third World levels. In some areas, with nearly every well lying dangerously close to sewage flows, the hepatitis rate is close...