Comments on: there’s something in the water http://guerrillahealthwatch.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/theres-something-in-the-water/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:17:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: H2OKits.com http://guerrillahealthwatch.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/theres-something-in-the-water/#comment-338 H2OKits.com Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:25:48 +0000 http://guerrillahealthwatch.wordpress.com/?p=104#comment-338 An Environmental Working Group analysis of Nitrates and nitrites tests reported by 15,803 public water suppliers in 28 states shows that between 1998 and 2003, 96.4 million people in 10,920 communities drank water contaminated with Nitrates and Nitrites. In 97 of these communities, tap water was contaminated at levels above health-based thresholds. Texas had 1,302 water supply systems serving 13.9 million people contaminated with Nitrates and Nitrites, which was the highest state in the study. Coming in second was Washington with 1,257 systems serving 3.9 million people. Nitrate & nitrite is a chemical that enters water from fertilizer runoff, leaching septic tanks, and erosion of natural deposits. Potential health impacts associated with Nitrate & nitrite include cardiovascular or blood toxicity, kidney toxicity, and reproductive toxicity. The Maximum Contaminant Limit (MCL) for Nitrates and Nitrites is 10 parts per million (ppm). Water suppliers report an average of 0.7 Nitrate and Nitrite tests per year. 23,948 water suppliers failed to report any Nitrate and Nitrite tests at all. Testing for Nitrate and Nitrite can be done by anybody, accurately and safely at home. Our <a href="http://www.h2okits.com/site/1286521/page/819927" rel="nofollow">water test kits</a> provide the accuracy of a laboratory to everyone with fast and accurate results. Please visit our site H2OKits.com for more information. An Environmental Working Group analysis of Nitrates and nitrites tests reported by 15,803 public water suppliers in 28 states shows that between 1998 and 2003, 96.4 million people in 10,920 communities drank water contaminated with Nitrates and Nitrites. In 97 of these communities, tap water was contaminated at levels above health-based thresholds.

Texas had 1,302 water supply systems serving 13.9 million people contaminated with Nitrates and Nitrites, which was the highest state in the study. Coming in second was Washington with 1,257 systems serving 3.9 million people.

Nitrate & nitrite is a chemical that enters water from fertilizer runoff, leaching septic tanks, and erosion of natural deposits. Potential health impacts associated with Nitrate & nitrite include cardiovascular or blood toxicity, kidney toxicity, and reproductive toxicity.

The Maximum Contaminant Limit (MCL) for Nitrates and Nitrites is 10 parts per million (ppm). Water suppliers report an average of 0.7 Nitrate and Nitrite tests per year. 23,948 water suppliers failed to report any Nitrate and Nitrite tests at all. Testing for Nitrate and Nitrite can be done by anybody, accurately and safely at home. Our water test kits provide the accuracy of a laboratory to everyone with fast and accurate results. Please visit our site H2OKits.com for more information.

]]> By: rachel http://guerrillahealthwatch.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/theres-something-in-the-water/#comment-334 rachel Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:28:59 +0000 http://guerrillahealthwatch.wordpress.com/?p=104#comment-334 I'm glad you were able to write about this. The idea of medication, as well as things like sunscreen, affecting water and marine life is not something I thought about much previously. And it's a fine line with regulation - primarily because these drugs were created for a myriad of purposes, and their impact on the environement (at least in terms of dilution into our water supply) was hardly taken into account as a stumbling block on whether or not they should be produced - ie birth control and diabetes medication. Until something like this reaches critical mass the best bet is being aware and educating people. This doesn't mean pushing Dr. Bronner's into their hands and throwing their Chanel out the window - although that's probably effective - but offering alternatives. My two and a half cents. Here's another topic that I plan on writing a bit about myself: Colonly collapse disorder in beees, quickly becoming a hot issue on the public health front. In fact, Haagen Daazs recently gave a whole bunch of money to UC Davis as funding for research in this area - since it hits their business pretty hard. More scary is the idea of no fruit....(shudder). I’m glad you were able to write about this. The idea of medication, as well as things like sunscreen, affecting water and marine life is not something I thought about much previously. And it’s a fine line with regulation – primarily because these drugs were created for a myriad of purposes, and their impact on the environement (at least in terms of dilution into our water supply) was hardly taken into account as a stumbling block on whether or not they should be produced – ie birth control and diabetes medication. Until something like this reaches critical mass the best bet is being aware and educating people. This doesn’t mean pushing Dr. Bronner’s into their hands and throwing their Chanel out the window – although that’s probably effective – but offering alternatives. My two and a half cents.

Here’s another topic that I plan on writing a bit about myself: Colonly collapse disorder in beees, quickly becoming a hot issue on the public health front. In fact, Haagen Daazs recently gave a whole bunch of money to UC Davis as funding for research in this area – since it hits their business pretty hard. More scary is the idea of no fruit….(shudder).

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