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multigraincracker

(32,675 posts)
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 06:56 PM Feb 2022

Metro Detroit's drinking water is unsafe, and it's not just lead

Over the past two years, 56 new contaminants have been identified in drinking water, a list that includes PFAS, a class of synthetic chemicals, as well as pesticides, radioactive materials, and water disinfectant byproducts.

The Environmental Working Group, an independent nonprofit that advocates for clean water, compiled the list from tap water quality reports and included it in a searchable database for every ZIP code in the U.S.

A Metro Times analysis of the database found an alarming cocktail of toxic chemicals coursing through tap water in virtually every community in metro Detroit. The contamination crosses racial and class lines and is as prevalent in higher-income communities as it is in lower-income ones.

Many of the chemicals, which exceed what scientists consider safe, are known to cause cancer, birth defects, hormone disruptions, nervous systems problems, and brain, liver, and kidney damage.

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/your-drinking-water-in-metro-detroit-is-unsafe-and-its-not-just-lead/Content?oid=29233603&utm_source=feature&utm_medium=home&utm_campaign=hpfeatures&utm_content=HomeTopFeature
Bad news.

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Metro Detroit's drinking water is unsafe, and it's not just lead (Original Post) multigraincracker Feb 2022 OP
Isn't Michigan surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes, the largest sources of fresh water... brush Feb 2022 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2022 #2
Interesting. I thought we had some of the cleanest tap water in the country! bif Feb 2022 #3
Lots of Iron in the water multigraincracker Feb 2022 #4

brush

(53,776 posts)
1. Isn't Michigan surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes, the largest sources of fresh water...
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 07:34 PM
Feb 2022

in the continent, if not the world? How can it be that anywhere in that state there isn't fresh water available to everyone?

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multigraincracker

(32,675 posts)
4. Lots of Iron in the water
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 06:15 PM
Feb 2022

in the far North West and pollution in the far South East.

I'm lucky and have the best sand filtered well water in the Center.

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