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Is Your Water Safe to Drink? |
| Section: LIFE / HEALTH |
| Author: Elyse Levine |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,566 Words, 15,628 Characters |
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"Afraid of the Water" read the headline in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution last December. The story under the headline had a disturbingly familiar ring. It told of a band of families in northeast Georgia who lived close to a landfill. For many years they put up with their unpleasant "neighbor" - the stench on hot summer days, the roving dogs drawn to rotting garbage, even the ooze they say seeps from the ground. Now the families are in a battle for clean water.
Unsatisfied with government tests that declared their wells untainted by the aging landfill, the citizens hired an independent laboratory. Tests from that lab confirmed dire suspicions; dangerous levels of lead and other contaminants were detected in the same water the government said was safe. The residents want state ...
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...have been recognized but not all the solutions have been well thought through." On a more optimistic note, federal and public interests are shifting toward preventing contamination and conserving water. This focus is crucial, says Epstein. "At some point our resources are going to be limited. We've been blessed with a vast quantity of water, but it's certainly not an infinite quantity." vbcrlf
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