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7. Hinkley's Water Is Still Poisonous - Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich follows Oscar-winner Julia Roberts as the title character, a determined single mother who discovers that the groundwater in a small American town - Hinkley, California - is contaminated with chromium, and that the company responsible for this has been trying to cover it up.

The film ends with Brockovich exposing the truth, forcing the company to pay a settlement of $333 million, which is to be shared among the affected residents of the town. Brockovich herself gets a $2 million bonus for her efforts, ending the movie on a triumphant and victorious note. But in reality, things turned out to be a lot less peachy.

This is because there are still plenty of chromium fears surrounding the town's water. In 2010, Hinkley resident Carmela Gonzalez found an increase in chromium-6 in her water supply, with further testing revealing that the original, underground chromium plume had actually grown in the years since Brockovich's 1996 legal victory.

Even worse, the town itself has gradually shrunk over the last two decades. In 2015, it lost its only gas station and post office, and things are looking so dire for Hinkley that The New York Times even described the place as a "ghost town" in 2016. As it turns out, winning a load of money doesn't suddenly make everything better!