Heading into the year’s hottest months, the city of Arlington says water safety is top of mind.

It’s been three years since it implemented the Bakari Williams Protocol.

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The 3-year-old boy died after contracting Naegleria fowleri, better known as a brain-eating amoeba, during a visit to a city splashpad.

“When water is not cared for, when water is untreated, when temperatures begin to rise and the water heats up, it creates an environment that is just ripe for this brain-eating amoeba to develop, to grow,” said attorney Stephen Stewart.

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Stewart represented Bakari’s parents in the case that resulted in $600,000 of improvements that th

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