ascook:
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.
(4 months ago)
Caroline Newcomb:
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.
(4 months ago)
number of pollutants
exceeding governme..