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While most Californians have access to safe water, roughly 750,000 people as of late October are served by 383 failing water systems, many clustered in remote and sparsely populated areas.

Those boxes would need to be clustered together in quantities that evoke a modern-day chemical or petroleum plant.

I first noticed them while driving away from Antonito, Colo. They didn’t fan out across fields but clustered on roadsides, like the weeds that grow alongside Southern California freeways.

But each has small yet significant concentrations of Democratic votes clustered in specific precincts.

Among 585 samples gathered in early January 2020, the ones that contained the coronavirus were clustered in the southwestern section of the market.