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"Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is as
much as 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain
chlorine."
U.S. Council Of Environmental Quality
"If you
don't own a water filter, your body is the filter".
Gregory Pouls, D.C.
"Each day
in America, about 30 cases of rectal cancer may be associated with
THMs (chlorination by products) in drinking water."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"Chlorine
is the greatest crippler and killer of modern times. While it prevented
epidemics or one disease [water-borne bacterial diseases], it was
creating another."
J.M. Price, M.D. Saginaw Hospital
"U.S. drinking
water contains more than 2100 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer."
Ralph Nader Research Group
"Chlorine
has so many dangers it should be banned. Cancer, heart trouble,
premature senility… a premature end to cell life and [premature]
death."
Dr. Herbert Schwartz, Cumberland College
"Drinking
water plants are old and out of date, and water supplies are increasingly
threatened and contaminated by chemicals and micro-organisms."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"One in
five Americans drink contaminated or inadequately treated water.
The most pervasive contaminants are coliform bacteria, cancer-causing
trihalomethanes, radioactive elements, and lead."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"The way
we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed."
Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Chief
"Known
carcinogens are found in drinking water as a direct consequence
of chlorination, a long established public health practice for the
disinfection of drinking water."
Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Francis T. Mayo,
Director
"The risk
of disease associated with public drinking water has passed from
the theoretical to the real."
Dr. David Ozonoff, Boston University of Public Health
"The cancer
risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than
among those whose water does not contain chlorine".
US Council of Environmental Quality
"More than
45 million Americans drank water supplied by systems where the unregulated
and potentially deadly contaminant, Cryptosporidium, was found in
their raw or treated water."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"Environmental
factors, including synthetic chemical pollutant exposure, are responsible
for approximately 90% of cancer incidence."
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
"Drinking
water in the U.S. is among the top four public health risks posed
by environmental problems."
Former EPA Administrator, William K. Reilly
"It is
well known that water quality can deteriorate in the system between
the point of treatment and consumption. For example, many mechanisms
can introduce bacteria into drinking water during distribution.
These include open reservoirs, enclosed reservoirs to which chlorine
is not added, new construction that may disturb the existing distribution
system, main breaks (which may become an increasing problem as distribution
system age), back pressure, dead ends in the mains with stagnant
water, and living organisms that may release bacteria into the drinking
water when the mains are disturbed. In addition to bacterial contamination,
corrosion by-products can also cause deterioration of water quality
and it is well established that disinfection by-products, forming
during treatment, increase with time in the distribution system."
Effects of the Distribution System on Drinking Water Quality,
R.M. Clark, J.A. Goodrich, L.J. Wymer, Risk Reduction Engineering
Laboratory, Office of Research and Development US. Environmental
Protection Agency
"Residues
of 39 pesticides and their degradation products have been detected
in the groundwater of thirty four states."
National Academy of Sciences
"Many water
suppliers know of contamination problems and yet, in a direct break
with public trust responsibilities and with the law, fail to tell
their customers of the problems." "Other water suppliers
falsify their water test results."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"35% of
the reported gastrointestinal illnesses among tap water drinkers
were water related and preventable."
Center For Disease Control Researchers
" Over
2,100 contaminants have been found in drinking water. Of those 2,100,
190 are known to cause adverse health effects. In total, 97 carcinogens,
82 mutagens and suspected mutagens (cause cell mutations), 23 tumor
promoters and 28 acute and chronic toxic contaminants have been
detected in U.S. drinking water."
The Center for Study of Responsive Law's "Troubled Water
on Tap"
"USA Today;
There's no telling precisely how many Americans get sick each year
from drinking bad water... I would say that the cases we learn about
are the tip of the iceberg."
Deborah Levy; Waterborne - disease Expert, Center for Disease
Control
"U.S. health
officials estimate 1.7 million Americans become ill [and possibly
1000-1500 die] from waterborne disease every year. In 1992-1993,
116 million Americans drank water from systems that violated the
law due to breaches of health standards, treatment, testing or reporting
rules".
Natural Resources Defense Council
"Weed killers
were found in tap water of 28 out of 29 cities tested... the results
of these tests reveal widespread contamination of tap water with
many different pesticides at levels that present serious health
risks... we estimate that 45,000 infants in these 29 cities drank
infant formula reconstituted with tap water contaminated with multiple
weed killers."
Environmental Working Group report, "Weed Killers By The
Glass"
"Drinking
tap water could possibly be fatal [due to bacterial and parasite
contamination in the US drinking water systems] to Americans with
weakened immune systems. They should boil their water or consult
with their physician about whether to consume tap water".
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Centers for
Disease Control (CDC)
"Each year
in the U.S., lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases
of learning disorders in children and 560,000 cases of hypertension
in adult males."
U.S. EPA Report summary
"Lead is
the number one environmental health threat to our children."
U.S. EPA
"The one
thing we know for sure about toxins in our drinking water, is that
the more we look... the more we find."
Jacquelyn Warren, Council for the Natural Resources Defense
Council
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