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Ever wonder what the hell is actually in your tap water?
Check out the National Tap Water Quality Database
You can search by company, state, and city.
You will be shocked, I think, to find just what sorts of contaminants exist in our water.
I live in Redlands, and there is Arsenic and Radon, among others...
(The sad thing is that America is considered to provide clean water to its citizens. Certainly this is true in comparison to those countries in which citizens have no access at all to water, or access to water tainted with disease.....)
Water-related deaths are not accurately recorded. Current best estimates fall between 2 and 5 million per year. The majority of those who die are small children, from preventable, but virulent, diarrheal diseases.
Check out Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Diseases 2000-2020
Check out the National Tap Water Quality Database
You can search by company, state, and city.
You will be shocked, I think, to find just what sorts of contaminants exist in our water.
I live in Redlands, and there is Arsenic and Radon, among others...
(The sad thing is that America is considered to provide clean water to its citizens. Certainly this is true in comparison to those countries in which citizens have no access at all to water, or access to water tainted with disease.....)
Water-related deaths are not accurately recorded. Current best estimates fall between 2 and 5 million per year. The majority of those who die are small children, from preventable, but virulent, diarrheal diseases.
Check out Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Diseases 2000-2020