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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

''Water Is There Enough and Is It Drinkable''

From Brian Williams

''Perhaps even more frightening than the looming shortage of water is the amount of impure water we are drinking. Despite marked improvement since passage of the Clean Water Act 35 years ago, the United Nations estimates that 5.6 million Americans (2 percent of us) drink water that does not meet safety standards. Chemical contaminants are present in all our major streams and in 90 percent of our underground aquifers. Twenty-four percent of Americans refuse to drink tap water. Sixty-five percent take such precautions as treating water in their homes by filtering or boiling it.''

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