Monday, January 19, 2015

Americans should never be asked to drink water after any and all spills, regardless of the chemical.

The only place Americans should be playing roulette is at a gambling establishment. On January 20, 2001 President Bush signed an Executive Order raising the limits on arsenic in drinking water. Ever since that day Americans sought local authority to insure their well being in having safe drinking water. But, with that order Americans began to wonder if any regulations served them or are they over doing it.

January 19, 2015
By Matthew Brown
GLENDIVE, Mont. — Officials said Monday (click here) that they were bringing truckloads of drinking water to the eastern Montana city of Glendive after traces of 50,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the Yellowstone River were found in the city's water supply.
State and federal officials said preliminary tests Monday indicated that at least some oil entered the supply for the city of 5,300 people. They stressed they are shipping drinking water as a precaution and do not know yet whether there is any public health threat to residents. They will perform further tests to determine that....

Water is H20. Not H20 with additives. Distilled water is fairly bland when drinking only water. To improve the taste of water there are sometimes minerals allowed to exist in the water and/or added to it and then it might be called Spring Water, etc. 

Oil has a lot chemicals in it. It isn't simply oil. It is also benzene, chromium, iron, mercury, nickel, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, toluene, and xylene. At no point in time after there is an oil spill anywhere near a water source for at the very least human beings should it be tolerated. The demand is simple, give communities safe drinking water as soon as the spill is found and send the oil company with the poor attention to safety the bill.