US drinking water is toxic, public too brain damaged to care

dukey · **Joined:** Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:00 am **Posts:** 2245

Animal feces, lead, mercury, pesticides, yummy stuff !

Ferretlover · **Posted:** Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:30 pm

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City of Corpus Christi, TX Serves: 270,000 people:
An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2002 shows that customers of City of Corpus Christi drank water containing up to 24 pollutants, including one unregulated contaminant. City of Corpus Christi is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.
Pollution Summary:
24 Total Contaminants Detected (1998 - 2002):
Aluminum, Arsenic (total), Barium (total), Chromium (total), Copper, Manganese, Nitrate, Selenium (total), Sulfate, Metolachlor, Atrazine, Monochloroacetic acid, Dichloroacetic acid, Trichloroacetic acid, Monobromoacetic acid, Dibromoacetic acid, Total haloacetic acids, Chloroform, Bromoform, Bromodichloromethane, Dibromochloromethane, Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs), Dichloromethane (methylene chloride), Gross beta particle activity (pCi/L)

4 Agricultural Pollutants:
(pesticides, fertilizer, factory farms)
Nitrate, Sulfate, Metolachlor, Atrazine

3 Sprawl and Urban Pollutants:
(road runoff, lawn pesticides, human waste)
Arsenic (total), Copper, Nitrate

10 Industrial Pollutants:
Aluminum, Arsenic (total), Barium (total), Chromium (total), Manganese, Nitrate, Selenium (total), Sulfate, Dichloromethane (methylene chloride), Gross beta particle activity (pCi/L)

11 Water Treatment and Distribution Byproducts (pipes and fixtures, treatment chemicals and byproducts):
Monochloroacetic acid, Dichloroacetic acid, Trichloroacetic acid, Monobromoacetic acid, Dibromoacetic acid, Total haloacetic acids, Chloroform, Bromoform, Bromodichloromethane, Dibromochloromethane, Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)

9 Naturally Occurring (naturally present but increased for lands denuded by sprawl, agriculture, or industrial development) :
Aluminum, Arsenic (total), Chromium (total), Copper, Manganese, Nitrate, Selenium (total), Sulfate, Gross beta particle activity (pCi/L)

1 Unregulated Contaminants EPA has not established a maximum legal limit in tapwater for these contaminants:
Metolachlor

Checked on what’s in YOUR water?

dinopello · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:56 am

Ferretlover wrote:

Checked on what’s in YOUR water?

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Arlington County, VA, Serves 184,000 people

5 Total Contaminants Detected (2003 - 2003)
Total haloacetic acids, Chloroform, Bromodichloromethane, Dibromochloromethane, Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)

0 Agricultural Pollutants
(pesticides, fertilizer, factory farms)

0 Sprawl and Urban Pollutants
(road runoff, lawn pesticides, human waste)

0 Industrial Pollutants

5 Water Treatment and Distribution Byproducts
(pipes and fixtures, treatment chemicals and byproducts)
Total haloacetic acids, Chloroform, Bromodichloromethane, Dibromochloromethane, Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)

0 Naturally Occurring
(naturally present but increased for lands denuded by sprawl, agriculture, or industrial development)

mos6507 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:29 am

It truly is the end of the world--because this is being reported by Fox News.

Kristen · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:32 pm

This doesn't even mention what types of pharmaceuticals are in tap water.

smallpoxgirl · **Joined:** Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 7742

Right. As opposed to the time when people's drinking water didn't contain animal feces? When was that again? People have been drinking out of rivers for an awfully long time.

mos6507 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:23 pm

smallpoxgirl wrote:

Right. As opposed to the time when people's drinking water didn't contain animal feces? When was that again? People have been drinking out of rivers for an awfully long time.

I'd say sanitation takes on a new meaning when it's 6.7+ billion people vs. what it was ages ago. How long do you think someone would survive drinking water straight out of the Ganges or Yalu river?

Pretorian · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:43 pm

smallpoxgirl wrote:

Right. As opposed to the time when people's drinking water didn't contain animal feces? When was that again?

How about Tritium and Strontium--90? Cause my water got some.

oswald622 · **Joined:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:00 am **Posts:** 192

smallpoxgirl makes a good point. wine and beer are popular in large part because there was often no safe drinking water in antiquity.

IgnoranceIsBliss · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:26 pm

I wonder if the water from a well in the same area would be any different? (I assume it would not have the chemicals that are considered by-products of water treatment) There are some nasty chemicals that are produced as a result of mixing chlorine and stuff during the purification process at the plant.

pstarr · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:34 pm

oswald622 wrote:

smallpoxgirl makes a good point. wine and beer are popular in large part because there was often no safe drinking water in antiquity.

Yeah I see the point. People always lived in nightmarish ghettos. Except when they didn't.

It's fine. Your insurance company will pay for the holes and the fillings.

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