A new report found that drinking water in 35 cities across the United States contain hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen. The report of the Environmental Working Group, is the first nationwide analysis of hexavalent chromium in drinking water to be made public.
The Environmental Protection Agency continues to debate whether to limit the carcinogen in drinking water despite that fact that the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, deemed it a “probable carcinogen” in 2008. That was almost three years ago, but we have yet to have any action from the government. Clean drinking water is the most basic requirement of our government. Yet, children continue to drink water that is infused with a presumptive carcinogen in Washington and other cities.
As usual, California took the lead with the first limitations on hexavalent chromium in drinking water — proposed a level of 0.06 parts per billion.
Hexavalent chromium is still used by industry despite the damage of the chemical in migrating into drinking water. It is used in chrome plating and the manufacturing of plastics and dyes. Congress and EPA has failed to act on the danger.
The highest levels were found in Norman, Okla., where the water contained more than 200 times the California goal. I expect that the government in Norman bills itself as a family-oriented community. If so, how can it allow its children to be exposed to such high levels of a likely carcinogen?
Source: Washington Post
Jonathan Turley
I proposed just switching to beer, but my wife vetoed the idea.
Hey, just be glad your water isn’t flammable…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=36c_1237612835
Of course that’s the exception, not the rule. If you want good water, move to a brewing center.
All our drinking water goes through a whole house filter, which then runs to the fridge, which has another filter in it.
I buy the finest filter for the whole house, which even is supposed to filter out the chlorine in the water.
Even better than bottled….
Wayne Jarvis,
Do you think that it is more likely that cancer rates in Hinkley have not risen even though the plume is spreading again is because hexavalent chromium is not toxic or because the residents are highly unlikely to drink unpurified water and are provided bottled drinking water from the company?
Buddha,
I submit that Wayne’s comment was just as dumb as Gov can’t Do Diddly Right’s was…
Lottakatz,
Thanks for the link.
I love New York.
http://www.ewg.org/chromium6-in-tap-water/findings
Wayne Jarvis
1, December 20, 2010 at 8:01 am
I hate to throw cold water (see what I did there?)
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It’s too early in the morning to do that to defenseless bloggers … I’m going to call my lawyer
Some of the plastics used in water bottles contain carcinogens,also.
Great links to the water quality sites pardon me and Lottakatz. I have two brother in laws who are the director of public works for two nothern suburbs of Chicago who are always bugging me about drinking “bottled water”. I think I will forward this thread to them, or better yet, have it available for them on Christmas Eve!
pardon me,
Good site. Straight forward and nothing that set NoScript or AdBlockerPlus on edge (unlike the ewg site).
Thanks for the ewg site, Lottakatz. Here’s another:
http://www.scorecard.org , but it won’t tell you how much flame retardant is in your butter.
Now for some Joni and Willie.
Sounds like the Science Czar might be up to his old tricks again.
John Holdren said that the population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food in a means to control population.
If it’s not him, I’m sure he has to be happy.
I hate to throw cold water (see what I did there?) on a rousing bout of alarmism, but:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121304675.html
The kids are alright.
and what organization is responsible for supplying and testing municipal water?
Local Government.
I hope the people responsible for distributing tainted water are thrown in jail and don’t get a second chance to screw with people’s health.
Ricardo Cabeza: “Morally, there is no higher virtue than profit”
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And which of the 250-odd Ferengi Laws of Acquisition is that one? My favorite and the one I live by (being a consumer) is “The bigger the smile-the sharper the knife.”
🙂
This is an interesting site for checking the pollutants in your water supply. Plug in your zip code and get a list of water suppliers for that code and click on yours. It gives a list of the pollutants in the supply and if they fall within “detected”, “over health guidelines” or “over legal limit” levels. Roll your curser over the pollutant name and a pop-up appears explaining what kind of pollutant it is.
My water supply has radioactive stuff over health guidelines in it like radium 228. We had a working mine to the south that produced nuclear material for the government until 2000-2003 so I wouldn’t be too surprised if we pumped groundwater but we don’t, it’s river water, Mississippi and Meramec at 80%/20%.
http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/whats-in-yourwater
Oh yes, by all means, put water safety in the domain of those who polluted the water in the first place.
I sincerely hope that’s the dumbest thing I hear today.
What makes you, for an instant, think the ‘government’ should impede corporate profit taking?
Morally, there is no higher virtue than profit. There is no grey area here.
Wow…..some areas even give you gas by products and pharmaceuticals as an extra bonus for drinking the local water supply…….
Some Cities….well…you get all of your daily requirements of lead……
And this story is just a tip in the ice berg….
This is the perfect beverage to put in those Disney-character glasses painted with lead paint.
“my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks.” I think Representative Bachus is on to something and it goes way beyond the House Financial Services Committee.
Privatize water plants.