Public Data Show Chemicals in Tap Water

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051220/ap_on_sc/tap_water

Loved the spinned statement of the Fed...

Also, the following database looks very good and thorough. Down to the smallest town.
http://www.ewg.org/tapwater/findings.php

"The top 10 states, listed in order of the most contaminants in their drinking water, were: California, Wisconsin, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, New York, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Illinois, according to EWG, which listed the biggest sources as agriculture, industry and urban and sprawl developments."

that are hazardous in concentration. We are creating hazardous substances and creating products whose production, use and/or "disposal" creates hazardous substances.

And we are spreading these hazardous substances (in varying concentrations) hither and yon -- including into the air we breathe, the water we drink, the things we touch, and, inevitably, into our bodies and those of potentially everyone on the planet.

Somehow, this seems unwise... And lax regulation even unwiser.

could certainly explain why the infection diseases are
running rampant and are becoming more difficult to reign in.
I guess we'll all be glowing in the dark pretty soon.

I have an autistic child, andfor all I know, contaminants may have something to do with it. I feel like the planet is ready to sneeze and toss us off any day now.

the database link looks pretty useful.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x37099

...these days is just being dumb or stubborn. I bought my first tap water filter back in about 1986 after experiencing the nasty tap water in S. California, but I think Central Florida is even worst, but nothing compares to the horror of Destin, on the Florida Pan-handel, Yuck!

Destin water is almost un-drinkable. You can taste the salts, sulfur and who knows what.

But good tasting water in not a good indicator of good water, the water in my home town in Indiana tasted great but, as I later discovered about 5 years ago through the magic of the Internet, most of the ground water in my neighborhood and 70% of the cities tap water was so contaminated that they were declared Super Fund Clean-up sites by the EPA, back in the 1980's.

Of course, the contamination, and the harm to peoples health, happened in the 1970's, but without the internet and all News alternatives it provides, this was never general knowledge as it never made the Front page of my (and I'm not making this up) hometown paper "The Elkhart Truth." Hey, why would anyone question the info provided (and not provided by) The Elkhart Truth? (If you think I'm kidding, here's a link: <http://www.etruth.com/#>

When I found this info at the EPA website in about 2000, I found that my hometown had Three (3) EPA Super Fund clean-up sites: One less than a mile from my house (where we used unfiltered Well water and another that was the cities MAIN Well field that supplied the city with water.

70% of the cities drinking water had been contaminated. Tests in 1978-79 showed this, but the EPA clean-up didn't start for more that 10 years. The well field was declared cleaned up in about 1993.

My family doesn't have a history of cancer, but very soon after moving into the house that was near the Super Fund site, my mother developed Cancer of the Uterus resulting in a full hysterectomy. I had a lot of learning difficulties in school, but we are not sure if it was the water or from a head injury from when I was 1 1/2. Plus, all of our Cats developed stomach tumors (cancer) and none live past the age of 10, one died at about 4 years, and the others between 9 and 10 even though we only lived in that house for 5 years. I recently told my vet about this and she said it was very likely related.

Anyway, back to Water filters. I used the "Instapure" by Teledyne Water Pik for years, but switched a few years ago to PUR, because I discovered that the "Instapure" is only a NSF "Reduction Class 2" filter. A class 2 filter only filters out Chlorine and some of the things that effect taste, for real protection from the really harmful stuff, you need to get a "Class 1" filter which removes 99.99% of the bad stuff, including Lead, which is still part of most plumbing (Leaded Brass). Not all of the PUR filters are Class 1, so you have to read the packages carefully. The PUR "Ultimate" filters are Class 1.

If you have a filter and don't know what "class" it is, here's a link to NSF, which is a independent non-profit organization: <http://www.nsf.org/Certified/DWTU/>