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The violations reported with our drinking water is shocking!
The EPA reported there were 8,522 violations for health based standards reported by Water Supply Systems and 17,519 Water Supply Systems were in violation for failure to monitor or submit a report on contaminants in their water. Consider that number 17,519 Water Supply Systems around the country did not even monitor or report their findings.
( EPA) (41
AND you, your children and family might be drinking that water!
What does the EPA say a Health Based Violation is?
“A health-based violation means that either a system has exposed their users to what EPA has judged as an unreasonable risk of illness, or a system has failed to treat their water to the extent EPA has judged necessary to protect their users from an unreasonable risk of illness in the event that the regulated contaminant is present in source water”
(EPA) (4)
The EPA states
“Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Children and infants, pregnant women and their fetuses, the frail elderly, people undergoing chemotherapy or living with HIV/AIDS, and transplant patients can be particularly at risk for infections… If you have special health care needs, consider taking additional precautions with your drinking water…”
(EPA) (5)
The First Contanimant Level
First Level “Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety and are non-enforceable public health goals.” (1)
Based on that wording “below which there is no known or expected risk to health” I would think most people would feel confident the drinking water provided to their homes/businesses at this level is safe for human ingestion and poses no short term or long-term threat to their health. It would seem that all public water supply systems providing drinking water to people throughout the country must meet these contaminant level standards to assure safe drinking water. But that is not the case! If you look at the last few words of that statement it says those contaminant levels “are non-enforceable public health goals’. That means the public water supply systems do not have to meet or report findings based on the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal.
The Second Contanimant Level
The second level allows for a couple of different issues, such as considering the availability and cost of current treatment technology to effectively treat the millions of gallons of water the public water supply systems must treat. Due to possible treatment technology limitations and the cost of implementing those technologies, the second level allows for the public water supply systems to provide water with some contaminants above the Maximum Contaminant Level “Goal” which is the level “below which there are no known or expected risk to health. There are currently 33 different contaminants that exceed the Maximum Contaminant Level “Goal” (first level) and are allowed to have higher Maximum Contaminant Levels (second level)
Following is what the Environmental Protection Agency states about the second level the Maximum Contaminant Level:
Second Level: “The Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) which is the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology and taking cost into consideration”. These levels are enforceable.” (2)
Notice the last sentence of the Second Level Description.
“These levels are enforceable”. This is the level at which public water systems are required to submit their water test results. If a public water supply system has contaminant levels in their water above the Maximum Contaminant Level (second level). The EPA reported there were 8,522 violations for health based standards reported by Water Supply Systems and 17,519 Water Supply Systems were in violation for failure to monitor or submit a report on contaminants in their water. Consider that number 17,519 Water Supply Systems around the country did not even monitor or report their findings.
flouride - The Truth
“Political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised the acceptable level of fluoride in drinking water from 1.2 ppm to 4 ppm, over objections from their agency scientists… 7,000 EPA union employees and the unions jumped into the debate.”
(Time Magazine) (25)
(The 7,000 union employees were arguing against increasing the level of fluoride in drinking water.)
“…fluoride (that is added to municipal water) is a hazardous waste product…for which there is substantial evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception, virtually no evidence of significant benefits.”
(Dr. William Hirzy – Vice President Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, EPA Headquarters Washington DC) (13)
The American Association of Poison Control Centers states there are thousands of reported cases of fluoride poisoning every year as a result of ingesting fluoride from different sources.
“The PTD, 5.0 mg F/kg, is defined as the dose of ingested fluoride that should trigger immediate therapeutic intervention and hospitalizationbecause of the likelihood of serious toxic consequences.”
(Journal of Dental Research) (27)
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