Here's what the FDA thinks about bottled water ... "Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public."
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Ralph Nadar says, his study group, exercising the Freedom of Information Act, reviewed thousands of documents and concluded with the somber assessment that: "U.S. drinking water contains more than 2,100 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer."
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In January, about 20 million gallons of sewage flowed into Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River after a 42-inch pipe ruptured near Reading, Pa.
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In March, between 700,000 and 1.3 million gallons of human feces and other waste spilled from a damaged pipe into Grand Lagoon at Panama City Beach, Fla.
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"When people flush their toilets, they think the sewage is going to the treatment plant, and that's where they deserve to have it go," said Nancy Stoner, a project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which says the government isn't doing enough to police sewage overflows.
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Gannett News Service analyzed enforcement and compliance records compiled by the EPA and some state regulators between January 2003 and February this year. The analysis found:
At least one-third of the nation's large, publicly owned sewage treatment systems have been penalized by the EPA or state regulators for sewage spills or other violations. The penalties included fines and orders to fix problems or expand treatment capacity.
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It has been recently reported that water samples taken from a US town’s water supply showed that the average level of trihalomethanes has increased about 9 percent from its previous average, which was above standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The trihalomethanes are a carcinogenic byproduct formed when chlorine used to disinfect drinking water interacts with organic materials in the water supply.
One theory about why the trihalomethanes levels might be higher is that the farther water travels from the water treatment plant, the more time chlorine has to interact with organic materials.
There have also been reports of drugs found in drinking water samples taken from all over the United States, Canada and other areas of the world.
These were waters intended for public use.
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