1. Read the book or see the movie A Civil Action.

2. Visit the web site http://www.civil-action.com.

3. Who sponsors this web site? Why would they want to sponsor such a web site?

4. What are the facts of the Woburn case? Please summarize the events that lead to the law suit. Name the chemicals and their suspected sources, the illness cluster that occurred in Woburn and the suspected causes of the illnesses.

5. Why is important for citizens in Phoenix Arizona to know about such events as this?

6. Read up on groundwater here...http://www.groundwater.org/GWBasics/gwbasics.htm the groundwater foundation.

7. Read about groundwater contamination in the Phoenix area in recent articles in the AZ Republic. ( copies are in room 285).

8. Why is groundwater contamination such a concern for all people?

9. What can be done to prevent it?