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It's August 2005 in Lubek, West Virginia.

It's a hot summer day, and Darleen Kiger is sweating as she rises from her flower garden.

The sun is beating down on her shoulders, and after hours of work down on the dirt, Kiger is feeling parched.

So she heads inside and walks to the kitchen.

She opens a cabinet and reaches for a glass.

Kiger begins filling it up with cold water straight from the tap.

Kiger downs it in a single gulp, and then she does it again.

Fills a glass with tap on her and drinks it all.

Kiger exhales in relief.

She feels better, and her thirst is quenched.

But as she looks down at her empty glass, Kiger also marvels at just how much everything has finally changed.

It was only a year ago that Kiger and her husband Joe were scared to drink the water that came out of the tap.

They knew it was tainted.

It was a problem that about 100,000 residents in the area were also dealing with.

And it all stemmed from DuPont.

The global company has a manufacturing plant that employs a lot of people in town.

One of the products they produce is Teflon, the slippery substance that makes pans nonstick.

And while Teflon might be good for making an omelette, it's caused an environmental disaster for the region.

DuPont has been dumping a chemical called C8, which is used to make Teflon.

And that chemical found its way out of unwind pits and contaminated the area's water supply.

When they learned their drinking water was polluted, Kiger and her husband decided to fight.

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