Feb 12, 2026 · 38 min · 19 segments
Introducing “Safe to Drink:” A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a chemical. The most basic question — whether the water is safe to drink — doesn’t have a clear answer…
Jason MoonHostBen Pierce was driving home.
He'd just dropped his kid off at daycare.
And he noticed something kind of odd.
I
remember coming down High Range Road and passing one of the neighbor's houses up on High Range Road, and they were getting a water delivery.
Like, cases and cases of bottled water.
The kind of delivery you'd see at a convenience store.
And I remember just thinking, like, wow, they really love the bottled water there.
Like, I'm surprised that they have, like, special delivery of bottled water to their house.
Ben's family had just moved to Londonderry, a town in southern New Hampshire, in the summer of 2019.
Now it was October.
Ben was still new in town.
The water thing was weird, but whatever.
He kept driving.
And I came around the circle and I drove down to our house and sitting right in our driveway was a whole massive pallet of water.
No explanation, no delivery person.
It was just sitting there in the driveway.
Later, Ben did the math.
Someone had delivered roughly 2,700 gallons of water to his house.
There wasn't, like, a note?
There was nothing, no.
And I just assumed it had to be a mistake.
Ben remembered the delivery truck he saw.
He decided to try and catch up to it.
So I hopped back in the car and I drove around the block and I said, hey, I don't know if you made a mistake, but there's all this water in our driveway.
Ben Pierce was driving home.
He'd just dropped his kid off at daycare.
And he noticed something kind of odd.
I
remember coming down High Range Road and passing one of the neighbor's houses up on High Range Road, and they were getting a water delivery.
Like, cases and cases of bottled water.
The kind of delivery you'd see at a convenience store.
And I remember just thinking, like, wow, they really love the bottled water there.
Like, I'm surprised that they have, like, special delivery of bottled water to their house.
Ben's family had just moved to Londonderry, a town in southern New Hampshire, in the summer of 2019.
Now it was October.
Ben was still new in town.
The water thing was weird, but whatever.
He kept driving.
And I came around the circle and I drove down to our house and sitting right in our driveway was a whole massive pallet of water.
No explanation, no delivery person.
It was just sitting there in the driveway.
Later, Ben did the math.
Someone had delivered roughly 2,700 gallons of water to his house.
There wasn't, like, a note?
There was nothing, no.
And I just assumed it had to be a mistake.
Ben remembered the delivery truck he saw.
He decided to try and catch up to it.
So I hopped back in the car and I drove around the block and I said, hey, I don't know if you made a mistake, but there's all this water in our driveway.
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