Over 500,000 people are asking the US military to pay for damages caused by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina. The problem with the water was first discovered in 1982, but the contamination had been going on for decades before that. The toxic water may have harmed about a million people between 1953 and 1987, leading to serious health issues like kidney cancer, bladder cancer, and leukemia.

According to recent reports, the US Navy has received more...