Environmental Pollution
A National Assessment of Tap Water Quality found more than 140 contaminants with no enforceable safety limits in the nation’s drinking water.
260 contaminants found in the nation’s tap water, more than half have no safety standards.
141 Contaminants are unregulated.
POLLUTION – WORSE THAN WE THINK?
The EPA has also failed to act on its own information showing that increased testing is justified.
EPA required water suppliers to test tap water for approximately 200 unregulated contaminants over the past 30 years.1
But the EPA’s own scientists have identified 600 chemicals in tap water formed as by-products of disinfection; 2
¤ Have tracked some 220 million pounds of 650 industrial chemicals discharged to rivers and streams each year3; and
¤ Have spearheaded research on emerging contaminants after the U.S. Geological Survey found 82 unregulated pharmaceuticals and personal care product chemicals in rivers and streams across the country that provide drinking water for millions of Americans.4
All told, EPA has set safety standards for fewer than 20 percent of the many hundreds of chemicals that it has identified in tap water.
- EPA 2001b, 2001c, 2005c, FR 1996
- Richardson 1998, 1999a,b, 2003
- EPA 2003
- Kolpin et al. 2004, EPA 2005d
Environmental Working Group, 12/20/05
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Individuals need environmental detoxification to cope more effectively with pollution that permeates the environment.
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