number of pollutants exceeding government allowance in tap water

Wow. This is really interesting information. I checked out the website that the information was from, and it was scary to see some of the contaminants found in Virginian water supplies! I definitely don't want to be drinking arsenic or ammonia. It's interesting that industrial pollutants account for the majority of pollutants found in water in Virginia and overall. I wonder if this is due to factories and large companies using unsafe practices when disposing of harmful chemicals. I find it interesting that the water utilities do not provide information on chemicals that aren't regulated by the EPA, when these chemicals account for over half of the pollutants found in utility water.

Thats a lot of pollutants, and its kind of creepy that so much stuff gets into our tap water. However, I can't say that I'm surprised about the ratios and that industrial pollutants were found in the highest amounts. I would like to know where the water being tested came from, as the number of pollutants founs would probably vary from source to source.

Katie Ardiff!! This graph is really interesting because I didn't know that there were so many pollutants in drinking water that exceed the government's standards. What are some of the naturally occuring pollutants in tap water?

It is amazing to see the number of pollutants above legal limits, but at the same time, we need to understand that these pollutants may be in such small concentrations that they do not have an effect on us. And exceeding the limit by .0000000001 is still exceeding the limit, even though that minute fraction may not make a difference.

I agree with Jacob (JACOB). I think that the data would be scarier to me if I knew exactly how much each pollutant exceeded the limit, and what the specific pollutants were.

Ok, so that is semi-frightening that our water isn't as clean as it's presumed to be. Isn't that kind of illegal to deceive the consumers like that, especially if it causes illnesses? How ironic that substances that are supposed to clean the water end up polluting it. Do you think we could sue the water company or the government if someone got sick?

Wow that's a lot of stuff.... I agree with other people about how it would be helpful to know by how much it exceeded the limit, but then again no one I know has ever gotten sick from drinking water, so.....