What's in your water?

[Craig Good]

Find out using the EWG's Tapwater Database.

[Scott Hotes]

Very cool, thanks Craig!  This reminds me of a (fairly alarming) story I read last month

in the East Bay Times:

http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/06/13/cancer-causing-contaminants-rise-sharply-in-east-bay-drinking-water/

“We see a steady increase in the THMs. We have a problem,” Brett Kawakami, the district manager of treatment and distribution, told a water board committee Tuesday. “The THM readings in two areas are approaching the maximum contaminant level” at which violations trigger a requirement to issue a public health advisory.

They particularly point to Orinda and the hills on the Oakland/Berkeley border...

This quote was also troubling:

“The water is safe to drink,” said district spokeswoman Jenesse Miller, “but we have identified a long-term issue with our water that deals with risks of consuming it over a lifetime.”

So I guess the advice from the public official is:  it's "safe" to drink our water, it just becomes

a problem if you plan on drinking water over the entire span of your lifetime...

Scott

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Craig Good <clg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Find out using the EWG's Tapwater Database.

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[jack saunders]

I strongly prefer this kind of fact-based/you decide marketing to the smarmy bullshit you get in TV spots.  The proprietors of this site quite plainly hope to sell water filters, but they do it bydelivering the data, rather than hyping worst case findings dug up somewhere in Louisianna or some other waste dump.

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[Craig Good]

> On Jul 26, 2017, at 15:26 PM, jack saunders <jack...@pacbell.net> wrote:
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> I strongly prefer this kind of fact-based/you decide marketing to the smarmy bullshit you get in TV spots. The proprietors of this site quite plainly hope to sell water filters, but they do it bydelivering the data, rather than hyping worst case findings dug up somewhere in Louisianna or some other waste dump.
>

I haven’t vetted the EWG. When I posted this I mistook them for another group. They are clearly an advocacy organization, but I don’t see where they’re selling stuff.






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