In eastern North Carolina, the Times editorial board writes, "giant pools of bright pink sludge" dot the landscape. They are waste lagoons, places where industrial farms in North Carolina dump billions of gallons of (weak stomach warning) untreated pig urine and feces. North Carolina is home to 8.9 million hogs, making it the second largest pork producer in the nation. Fourteen of these lagoons flooded after Hurricane Matthew, leading to a host of potential problems, including the contamination of groundwater, which is what about 3 million North Carolinians rely on to drink.