arsenic in drinking water

[kit'n]

ok, i have my env sci final thur so i was going back, reading the chapters that i havent read so far and doin some studying, when i found this interesting fact:

In 1942, the US government set the acceptable level of arsenic in drinking water at 50 parts per billion (ppb). A 1999 study by the National Academy of Sciences found a one in 100 risk of cancer from drinking water with that level of arsenic for a lifetime. This is 10,000 times the accepted risk level. The US limit was nearly revised to meet the World Health Organization standard of 10 ppb in 2000. The change was rejected though. Local officials and private water supply companies complained that it would cost too much to upgrade their systems. The government has no business, they maintained, telling us what we can or cannot drink
--from Environmental Science: A Global Concern; 7th edition. Cunningham, Cunningham, and Saigo

wtf?!?!? the govt tells us what we can or cannot put into our bodies all the time! local govts pass laws about people not being allowed to smoke indoors in public places because of the risk of second hand smoke causing cancer... second hand smoke that can be avoided by simply leaving the place... drinking water cannot be avoided!!! u have to drink water!!

this irritates the fuck out of me!!!

anyone else?

[USAcommitteeX]

You don't like it, go live in Holland then you can put whatever you want in your body

[Ryan]

Originally posted by USAcommitteeX
You don't like it, go live in Holland then you can put whatever you want in your body

Are you capable of conjuring up a single statement that makes any sense whatsoever?

[kit'n]

there's alot of things i dont put in my body... it's not about that... its the fucking hypocrisy our piece of shit govt allows!!!

besides, in holland, u get to chose what u put in ur body, here u dont get a choice with the arsenic levels in the DRINKING WATER!!!

would you prefer the drinking water standards of say.... Russia, India, most of Europe and Asia, all of Africa and South America?

it ain't necessarily perfect - and I agree it should be better - but - we still have better drinking water than most of the world

regrading Gov'tal double speak - welcome to the real world. Sad but true.

[kit'n]

i know... its just the hypocrisy that annoys me... thats my biggest pet peeve... sayin one thing for the good of something, then on another issue, totally reversing yourself, like the govt has done here. *shrug* i know the real world, but i can still bitch from time to time.

Originally posted by kit'n
i know... its just the hypocrisy that annoys me... thats my biggest pet peeve... sayin one thing for the good of something, then on another issue, totally reversing yourself, like the govt has done here. *shrug* i know the real world, but i can still bitch from time to time.

sure can - and please do!


One of the causes of the hypocrasy is the sheer magnitude and scope of what the gov't has its hands on. I'm trting to give them a pass on this, but they Gov't has its hands full with an awful lot of stuff. Also, the smoking ban was done by the City of Dallas and the drinking water purity standards by the Federal Gov't. Contradictions and clashes of policy occur all over the place but I still love our way of doing things more than anybody elses - we get a lot of things wrong - but mostly we get it right eventually.

[kit'n]

oh, i know that water standards are federal and smoking bans and whatnot are local or state(i did put it in my original bitch ).. just pointing out the contradictions.. esp when they got away with the argument that the govt cant tell them what to or what not to drink... govt does that all the time (in the broader sense of what's getting put in our bodies).

[bfp]

I drink distilled water from Ozarka. So does my baby of course, being that anything else will make him sick. Fuck tap water. I tried giving him tap water when he was a new-born, he spewed everywhere.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by bfp
I drink distilled water from Ozarka. So does my baby of course, being that anything else will make him sick. Fuck tap water. I tried giving him tap water when he was a new-born, he spewed everywhere.

Oh my God, he's reproduced!

jk

[bfp]