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To: odawg
Because, with every bill we get from our water company, an insert is enclosed warning that drinking the water may cause cancer.

Well that certainly isn't the case here in Michigan.....

23 posted on 02/19/2020 4:50:31 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“Well that certainly isn’t the case here in Michigan....”

They say it is due to the added disinfectants, required by law, that form harmful compounds.


24 posted on 02/19/2020 4:59:57 AM PST by odawg
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To: Hot Tabasco
Well that certainly isn't the case here in Michigan.....

No, we get lead instead.

My Lansing Board of Water and Light water rate is $3.16 per ccf. (A ccf is 100 cubic feet.)

That's $3.16 for 748 gallons of water. Methinks most of the pricing in this article isn't for the actual product, but for the packaging and transport of those packages.

26 posted on 02/19/2020 5:05:01 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Hot Tabasco

:: Well that certainly isn’t the case here in Michigan. ::

Well, true there is no warning but, the Marshall Sandstone aquifer that provides drinking water to the (almost entire) Southern half of the mitten is above EPA recommendations for Arsenic, Nitrates and Sulfates in drinking water. Municipal use is grandfathered for most communities.

Tap water routinely has “floaters” (TSS) and as a result of local treatment (pH adjust, chlorine, fluorine), the water has a slightly “eggy” smell to it (chem-rxn of Fe and SO4).
I drank that tap water from 1958 through 1981. I’m in fine health. ;-)


30 posted on 02/19/2020 5:41:04 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous.)
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