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Mon Dec 20, 1:28 pm ET 31 cities’ tap water has cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, study says

By Brett Michael Dykes
By Brett Michael Dykes brett Michael Dykes – Mon Dec 20, 1:28 pm ET
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The Environmental Working Group released a report Monday indicating that millions of Americans are regularly drinking hexavalent chromium, made famous in the film "Erin Brockovich" as a carcinogen, through their tap water.
The group -- whose study was first reported in a story Sunday by the Washington Post's Lyndsey Layton -- tested water from 35 U.S. cities and found that samples from 31 cities contained hexavalent chromium. The highest concentrations were found in Norman, Okla.; Honolulu; and Riverside, Calif. The substance had been a widely used industrial chemical for decades and has evidently leached into the groundwater in many areas.
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The EWG report states:

"Despite mounting evidence of the contaminant's toxic effects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not set a legal limit for chromium-6 in tap water and does not require [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]water [COLOR=#366388 !important]utilities[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] to test for it. Hexavalent chromium is commonly discharged from steel and pulp mills as well as metal-plating and leather-tanning facilities. It can also pollute water through erosion of natural deposits.

"The authoritative National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has said that chromium-6 in [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]drinking [COLOR=#366388 !important]water[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] shows 'clear evidence of carcinogenic activity' in laboratory animals, increasing the risk of gastrointestinal tumors. Just last October, a draft review by the EPA similarly found that ingesting the chemical in tap water is 'likely to be carcinogenic to humans.' Other health risks associated with exposure include liver and kidney damage, anemia and ulcers."
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Drinking-water supplies all over the country are increasingly tainted by chemicals used in natural gas drilling. And Erin Brockovich, for her part, told the EWG that she's rather astonished to find that hexavalent chromium is still a prospective health threat in so many communities.
[List: America's most polluted cities]
"It is sometimes difficult to understand why I still have to warn the public about the presence of hexavalent chromium in drinking water 23 years after my colleagues and I first sounded the alarm," Brockovich told the EWG. "This report underscores, in fairly stark terms, the health risks that millions of Americans still face because of water contamination."
The list of cities found to have hexavalent chromium in the [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]municipal [COLOR=#366388 !important]water [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 !important]supplies[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] are as follows:
• Honolulu, HI
• Bend, OR
• Sacramento, CA
• San Jose, CA
• Los Angeles, CA
• Riverside, CA
• Las Vegas, NV
• Salt Lake City, UT
• Scottsdale, AZ
• Phoenix, AZ
• Albuquerque, NM
• Norman, OK
• Omaha, NE
• Madison, WI
• Milwaukee, WI
• Chicago, IL
• Ann Arbor, MI
• Louisville, KY
• Cincinnati, OH
• Buffalo, NY
• Syracuse, NY
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Villanova, PA
• Boston, MA
• New Haven, CT
• New York, NY
• Bethesda, MD
• Washington, DC
• Atlanta, GA
• Tallahassee, FL
• Miami, FL
(Photo: AP/Bob Child)
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UNCLERUCKUS

UNCLERUCKUS

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FORGET THE FISH ! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR US AS HUMANS? ANSWER STOMACH CANCER AND DEATH! NOT GOOD AT ALL. CHRIS I READ THIS YESTERDAY AND WAS AMAZED AT THE WORDING AND THE FACT THAT IT BASICALLYIS BRUSHED UNDER THE CARPET.:angry:
 
George

George

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R/O pretty much removes it. Many of those cities listed have such small traces of it that there is no need to worry. Chicago gets water from Lake Michigan. If Lake Michigan is polluted enough to cause problems there is no hope for civilization as the midwest knows it:lol:. The MD levels were very low. If you check you will find that some of the other cities listed had 200 times the MD levels.

We have been told that so many things we do, eat, and drink will kill us quick that I would not sweat the chromium. Worry about the drunken jack@ss who is going to jump in your lane and smack you head on in your car. That might kill you quick.

George
 
Tony

Tony

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Hexavalent Chromium is no joke... I've seen Erin Brockovich. :D
 
longstocking

longstocking

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lol after growing up in Cali.... as some of us in the club did...

We don't care about warnings. Everything causes cancer in Cali :lol:

In truth... southern california, the smog will give you lung cancer before anything you drink or eat :lol:
 
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