Bush Mandates Arsenic in Your Tap Water
by Rachel Massey
...The 10 ppb arsenic standard (click here) would have put the U.S. squarely in the mainstream. In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) set 10 ppb as the recommended limit for arsenic in drinking water. The 15-nation European Union adopted 10 ppb as a mandatory standard for arsenic in drinking water in 1998.[6] WHO says even this level is not safe; for example, WHO estimates that lifetime exposure to water containing 10 ppb of arsenic will lead to six cases of skin cancer per 10,000 people....
The first law passed to regulate arsenic in USA's water supply was 1942. Decades had gone by with more and more information about arsenic and how tragic it's presence in drinking water had been. It caused long term effects. Under the Bill Clinton Administration EPA was mandated to change the current standard from 50 ppb (parts per billion) to 10 ppb. The standard was delayed for a long time, but, under Bill Clinton it was due to go into effect in 2001.
Letter to left click here.
Lowering arsenic in USA drinking water had been a Congressional mandate for decades.
...Congress (click here) has directed EPA to update the 1942 arsenic standard three times -- in 1974, 1986, and 1996. A court ordered EPA to complete this task in the early 1990’s, but several extensions were granted. EPA still has not updated the standard. In a legislative mandate in the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, Congress again directed EPA to publicly propose an updated arsenic standard based on current evidence by January 1, 2000, a deadline that EPA has now, again, missed. EPA is then required to promulgate the finalarsenic standard by January 1, 2001.
This is Massachusetts: (click here)
...If the arsenic level in your well water is above 10 ppb there are a number of treatment methods available. However, before selecting a treatment method, there are a number of factors that need to be considered....
The cost for testing well water in Massachusetts is $15 to $30 depending on the lab one uses. Easily affordable by any private land owner with their own well.
The treatment is a little more, but, affordable for well owners. The maintenance is about $30 to $50 per month once the initial cost of installation was made.
...Reverse osmosis (RO) and adsorptive media are most commonly used for point-of-use systems. A recent cost survey conducted by New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) indicated that the median cost to install a point-of-use treatment system was $1,200, with median annual maintenance costs of $343. RO treatment systems are generally less expensive than adsorptive media systems.
Adsorptive media and anion exchange are most commonly used for whole house treatment systems. The same NHDES survey indicated a median cost of $3,000 to install a whole house treatment system, with median annual maintenance costs of $550. Anion exchange treatment systems are generally less expensive than adsorptive media systems....
One has to ask if they want to be safe from arsenic effecting the family's health in the long term. The alternative is for water delivery to the house and it is questionable they might not have such tight standards either. Delivery of water is far more than $30 to $50 per month for a family.
The optimal action is to protect the family and then gather the neighbors and go to the town council and demand finding of the cause of the arsenic and then demanding the containment or removal of the arsenic to the environment.
George Walker Bush made the decision that the federal government had no business in protecting the long term health of the people of the USA because it cost money. That is not a President that deserves respect, it is a puppet to cronies and Wall Street.
Rick Snyder had the very same issue with Flint's water and willingly and consciously made the decision to allow poisons in the Flint water supply to SAVE COSTS, not lives. These are horrible men with an agenda and it needs to stop!!!!!
Maybe NOW the American people will understand why the Republicans hate government run healthcare.
by Rachel Massey
...The 10 ppb arsenic standard (click here) would have put the U.S. squarely in the mainstream. In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) set 10 ppb as the recommended limit for arsenic in drinking water. The 15-nation European Union adopted 10 ppb as a mandatory standard for arsenic in drinking water in 1998.[6] WHO says even this level is not safe; for example, WHO estimates that lifetime exposure to water containing 10 ppb of arsenic will lead to six cases of skin cancer per 10,000 people....
The first law passed to regulate arsenic in USA's water supply was 1942. Decades had gone by with more and more information about arsenic and how tragic it's presence in drinking water had been. It caused long term effects. Under the Bill Clinton Administration EPA was mandated to change the current standard from 50 ppb (parts per billion) to 10 ppb. The standard was delayed for a long time, but, under Bill Clinton it was due to go into effect in 2001.
Lowering arsenic in USA drinking water had been a Congressional mandate for decades.
...Congress (click here) has directed EPA to update the 1942 arsenic standard three times -- in 1974, 1986, and 1996. A court ordered EPA to complete this task in the early 1990’s, but several extensions were granted. EPA still has not updated the standard. In a legislative mandate in the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, Congress again directed EPA to publicly propose an updated arsenic standard based on current evidence by January 1, 2000, a deadline that EPA has now, again, missed. EPA is then required to promulgate the finalarsenic standard by January 1, 2001.
The current scientific and health risk assessment status of arsenic within that mandate makes it clear that EPA’s current MCL of 50 µg/L is grossly inadequate for protecting public health. The extent of that inadequacy is effectively captured in the NAS report, Arsenic in Drinking Water (NAS, 1999). The report focused heavily on risk assessment estimates for human cancer frequencies as a function of drinking water and food arsenic and derived cancer risks for arsenic in environmental media, particularly drinking water. Our analysis concurs strongly with the academy’s findings and recommendations as well as the following conclusion:
On the basis of its review of epidemiological findings, experimental data on the mode of action of arsenic, and available information on the variations in human susceptibility, it is the subcommittee’s consensus that the current EPA MCL for arsenic in drinking water of 50 µg/L (50 micrograms/L is the same as 50 ppb) does not achieve EPA’s goal for public-health protection and, therefore, requires downward revision as promptly as possible (NAS, 1999, pp. 8-9)....At the very time, January 2001, the tighter standard was to take place, nineteen days later George W. Bush ended the regulation of arsenic.
This is Massachusetts: (click here)
...If the arsenic level in your well water is above 10 ppb there are a number of treatment methods available. However, before selecting a treatment method, there are a number of factors that need to be considered....
The cost for testing well water in Massachusetts is $15 to $30 depending on the lab one uses. Easily affordable by any private land owner with their own well.
The treatment is a little more, but, affordable for well owners. The maintenance is about $30 to $50 per month once the initial cost of installation was made.
...Reverse osmosis (RO) and adsorptive media are most commonly used for point-of-use systems. A recent cost survey conducted by New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) indicated that the median cost to install a point-of-use treatment system was $1,200, with median annual maintenance costs of $343. RO treatment systems are generally less expensive than adsorptive media systems.
Adsorptive media and anion exchange are most commonly used for whole house treatment systems. The same NHDES survey indicated a median cost of $3,000 to install a whole house treatment system, with median annual maintenance costs of $550. Anion exchange treatment systems are generally less expensive than adsorptive media systems....
One has to ask if they want to be safe from arsenic effecting the family's health in the long term. The alternative is for water delivery to the house and it is questionable they might not have such tight standards either. Delivery of water is far more than $30 to $50 per month for a family.
The optimal action is to protect the family and then gather the neighbors and go to the town council and demand finding of the cause of the arsenic and then demanding the containment or removal of the arsenic to the environment.
George Walker Bush made the decision that the federal government had no business in protecting the long term health of the people of the USA because it cost money. That is not a President that deserves respect, it is a puppet to cronies and Wall Street.
Rick Snyder had the very same issue with Flint's water and willingly and consciously made the decision to allow poisons in the Flint water supply to SAVE COSTS, not lives. These are horrible men with an agenda and it needs to stop!!!!!
Maybe NOW the American people will understand why the Republicans hate government run healthcare.
