Check out this detailed article in the NYTimes. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/13water.html?hp
Although I knew I was fortunate to have a pristine well I didn't know how unfortunate most Americans are in regards to water quality. Water quality is so bad is some states that people develop rashes after bathing! The clean water act has been violated over 500,000 times in the last 5 years but less than 3% of violations received fines. Further the actual number of violations is suspected to be higher as a result of the recording process. Nearly 20 million Americans contract a disease related to poor water quality every year.
From the article "three coal companies — Loadout, Remington Coal and Pine Ridge, a subsidiary of Peabody Energy, one of the largest coal companies in the world — reported to state officials that 93 percent of the waste they injected near this community had illegal concentrations of chemicals including arsenic, lead, chromium, beryllium or nickel."
Wow.
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