There's water in the chemicals there - a real conflagration of interests
Hundreds of Chemicals Found in (WI)'s John Helprin's body--(Worth about $37--"Oh the Humanity!")
All those meth and LSD labs in Racine?...........
That's why I live on the side of a mountain and have a well.
The good news is that in the US, the little black things in the water aren't moving.
In the early 70s at Bechtel's slurry pipeline lab, I worked on a physical, as opposed to chemical, analysis of San Francisco's water.
The drinking water had more suspended solids and greater turbibity on average, than the San Francisco sewerage samples we used for comparison.
That is not to say it wasn't sanitary; just that it had more guk floating & suspended in it.
Environmental Working Group
Also known as a "project" of the Tides Center
"EWG’s game plan is simple. It releases “scientific” analyses designed to make the public (especially parents) worry tremendously about tiny amounts of pesticide exposure from fruits and vegetables. Throwing around phrases like “cancer risk” and “nervous system toxicity” attracts press coverage and lends EWG the veneer of scientific respectability. The “Environmental Worrying Group,” as some commentators have dubbed the organization, then goes on to recommend that Americans “buy as much organic food as possible” in order to avoid the supposed health risks associated with these pesky chemicals."
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/113
The most common substance was an oxide of hydrogen.
AP - Madison, Wisconsin 12/20/05 - CH4, a greenhouse gas, found to be caused by beer and cheese factories.
Saddam hid his WMD's in MADISON!!!
Figures
The last time I had water from Wisconsin it had all kinds of things in it. Barley, Hops,....
DEC 21, 2005 - 12:44 AM
Officials dispute negative report on drinking water
RON SEELY rseely@madison.com
Wisconsin fared poorly in a national environmental group's analysis of drinking water quality, ranking second to California in the number of contaminants detected in tap water.
Wisconsin water regulators, however, said they think the analysis is flawed.
A research and advocacy or ganization called the Environ mental Working Group on Tuesday released the results of an analysis of water tests conducted between 1998 and 2003 by nearly 40,000 water utilities across the nation.
In Wisconsin, the group looked at water tests during the six-year period for 1,089 communities. Those tests, accord ing to the analysis, turned up 119 pollutants, including 45 agricultural pollutants and 67 industrial contaminants (some are included in both catego ries). Only California, with 145, reported more. Arizona, Florida and North Carolina tied for third with 107 pollutants each. Illinois reported 92 contaminants and ranked 10th for total pollutants.
Experts here disputed the ranking because:
It is misleading to equate the quality of water in a state with the number of times a pollutant is detected, said Todd Ambs, director of the state Department of Natural Resources' water division. The way the re port is set up, all 119 pollutants listed for Wisconsin could have been detected in one well in one test - and the state would still be second to California in the number of contaminants reported, Ambs said.
In many instances, a pollu tant was detected only once in as many as 40 tests, Ambs said, yet that pollutant is given as much significance as one that was detected many times, Ambs said.
Wisconsin's high ranking probably has less to do with the quality of its water than its high number of treatment plants and the diligence the state brings to testing.
"Wisconsin has 11,400 public water systems," said Lee Bou shon, who directs drinking water programs for the DNR. "That's the second-highest number of systems in the country. Just by sheer numbers, the likelihood of detections goes up."
None of the contaminants detected exceeded legal limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. But levels did, at times, exceed recommended minimum health limits set by the federal agency.
For example, the Madison Water Utility reported finding 38 contaminants in tests con ducted between 1998 and 2003. Those of the greatest health concern, according to the re port, were manganese and arsenic - pollutants that may occur naturally but are worsened by urban sprawl and in dustrial development - and carbon tetrachloroethylene, an industrial pollutant.
Al Larsen, principal engineer for the Madison Water Utility, questioned the report's accuracy. For example, in tests for manganese, the Environmental Working Group analysis shows one test in which the pollutant was measured at 27,000 parts per billion in Madison, well above health standards set by the EPA. But Larsen said his check of the utility's test reports revealed no results at that level.
Larsen added - and the Environmental Working Group report also indicated - that tests of manganese between 1998 and 2003 showed no violations of enforced manganese stan dards. A number of residents in Madison's Nakoma neighborhood have high levels of the contaminant in their water and are concerned about potential health effects.
"We find the report to be very misleading and seriously flawed," Ambs said. "People should be very confident that the water they are drinking here is very safe. We have more than 11,000 public water sys tems in this state, and 99 percent of them meet federal safe water drinking standards."
Even the Environmental Working Group indicated that it found almost 100 percent compliance with enforceable health standards on the part of the nation's water utilities. The problem, according to the re port, is that the EPA has not set enforceable health standards and monitoring requirements for scores of tap water contaminants.
Of the 260 contaminants detected in tap water from 42 states, 141 are not subject to any regulation by the EPA. In Wisconsin, the analysis of water test results showed the presence of 32 pollutants for which the EPA has set no maximum legal limit.
Jane Houlihan, vice president for research for Environmental Working Group, said the lack of enforceable standards for many pollutants is a problem. "People shouldn't be alarmed, but they should be concerned," Houlihan said.
Well dammit! I'm paying for THOUSANDS!
I'm being cheated!!!