Posted on 10/20/2014 4:33:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Environmental Protection Agency took the first step toward regulating a chemical in the country’s drinking water on Monday.
The EPA issued a preliminary determination to regulate the chemical called strontium, which is a naturally occurring element.
At elevated levels strontium can impact bone strength in people who don’t consume enough calcium, the EPA said.
Strontium has been found in roughly 99 percent of the public water systems in the U.S..
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
How long before these idiots complain that there’s deuterium oxide in their water and they want it all removed?
99%. Just a little incremental start, right?
Surely the severely conservatives Republicans will negotiate them down to control over only 98% of the water supplies.
If there is a single resource best monitored for contaminants it is drinking water. Having spent 30+ years working for a public water supply system I don’t see a problem here.
Crap! Now they are gonna regulate drinking water?????
I’m only 68 and I want to live to 305 and the only way I can do it is by drinking clean, regulated water.
It must be a freak of nature for all of us old people to have survived without the government regulating the drinking water. I don’t understand how I lived this long.
/sarc
I own & regulate my own private supply of water :>}
That is precisely why EPA wants to regulate. They are a solution in search of a problem......and therefore need to be disbanded.
Man made drugs, okay. Gods minerals, bad.
Of course they will, it's used in pesticides.
And nuclear reactors!
Well - I wouldn’t want too much sulfer or arsenic in my water either. But with this strontium thing - maybe they will just require that more calcium be added!?
Until they find out that the strontium is good for you, or somehow balances out the little bit of sulfer or arsenic.
As you may or may not know, Congress enacted the Safe Drinking water Act 40 years ago.
And Coca Cola and anti-freeze and...............
I don’t know much about this. Here is one excerpt from Wikipedoia- can’t vouche whether it is accurate
“The human body absorbs strontium as if it were calcium. Due to the chemical similarity of the elements, the stable forms of strontium might not pose a significant health threat — in fact, the levels found naturally may actually be beneficial (see below) – but the radioactive 90Sr can lead to various bone disorders and diseases, including bone cancer. The strontium unit is used in measuring radioactivity from absorbed 90Sr”
Sounds like they going after the wrong problem if they are going after regular Strontium.
And nuclear reactors!
It can also be found in rivers and lakes... Something must be done immediately to eliminate all deuterium oxide... before its too late!!!
Strontium is used in the some of the toothpaste sold under the Sensodyne brand as a desensitizer for people with tooth and gum pain.
Strontium is also used in an off-label supplement use for those with bone decay, as Strontium is much harder than Calcium, and will replace some of it, strengthening the bone.
Bone density is usually determined by a Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, previously DEXA) test, and those who use Strontium for their bones are supposed to tell the technician about it, because their density readings will be very different from ordinary bone.
In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, both the US and the Soviet Union conducted atmospheric nuclear tests. After some tests by the Soviet Union, the US suddenly detected much larger than normal levels of radioactive Strontium-90 in cow’s milk produced in the Midwest.
It was then discovered that for some reason, the Jet Stream had a major “downdraft” right over the Kansas-Nebraska region. So Strontium-90 isotopes created by the atmospheric tests in the Soviet Union, were carried around the world and dumped right over the American breadbasket.
Readily absorbed by grasses, that were then eaten by cows.
Very shortly thereafter, the US and USSR signed the Limited (or atmospheric) Nuclear Test Ban treaty.
I just found out it is a supplement:
http://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-strontium-680-mg-per-serving-120-vegetarian-capsules-1
“Contaminants”?
The human body absorbs strontium as if it were calcium. Due to the chemical similarity of the elements, the stable forms of strontium might not pose a significant health threat — in fact, the levels found naturally may actually be beneficial -Wiki
99% of drinking of drinking water an it poses a threat?
This is the nose of the camel b.s. .
Disband the EPA now!
Salt, coal, DDT, and...
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