Is your tap water safe?

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  Posted by Bobee Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:05am PST

  Thanks for the article on drinking water. I am on well water. I wil have mine tested this week and stop buying bottled water. Bobee B.

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  Posted by Sue Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:26am PST

  great article and very informative.

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  Posted by David_E_Howell-Oak_Park-MI Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:32am PST

  The Associated press reported last year on this very Yahoo browser that the drinking wter is packed with the medications passed through people's urine into the water supply: estrogen fromt the birth control pill, and antibiotics and psychiatric drugs, like antidepressants. Lori Bongiorno, what kind of "general consensus" do you consider valid in this matter? Is this an example of your hardcore reporting skills? What planet are you reporting from?

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  Posted by Angelica Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:40am PST

  I take that back

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  Posted by Christopher Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:00am PST

  tap water is full of medication residue and loaded with chlorine.locally my water used to be solely well water.now its mixed with Lake Michigan treated highly chlorinated water.its horrible.i run the tap water a minimum one minute if i need some potable water to drink.again,its horrible.

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  Posted by MR R Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:23am PST

  i live in a town in Texas were they say it's ok to drink the city water, even if thier is a bad smell to it and a realy bad tast tothe water. The City water company claim that the city lake has tirned over and the reason it is the way it is. this is my comment: you could not package this water and sell it in bottles no one would buy this bad smelling and bad stating water. sorry for the misspelled word.

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  Posted by rolex Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:28am PST

  personaly, i don't like water, it has no taste, and no nutrional value at all!!!! i know it's good for us, but i drink cranbery juice, oranje juice, and other more vitamin filled drinks, that actually have taste, yet are far better than sodas. i'll skip on the tap water, thank you very much.

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  Posted by Look Away, I'm Hideous Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:41am PST

  I hardly ever buy bottled water. I'm sorry but do you think i am stupid enough to pay over $1.00 for something that i can get out of the tap basically for free?

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  Posted by josephallen1955@att.net Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:51am PST

  I was told that Chicago has the best Tap water,I dont know if thar's true but, I like it! I have been drinking Chicago's Tap water for over fifty years but, I also drink bottled water.

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  Posted by Becca Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:18am PST

  "Posted by David_E_Howell-Oak_Park-MI Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:32am PST The Associated press reported last year on this very Yahoo browser that the drinking wter is packed with the medications passed through people's urine into the water supply: estrogen fromt the birth control pill, and antibiotics and psychiatric drugs, like antidepressants. Lori Bongiorno, what kind of "general consensus" do you consider valid in this matter? Is this an example of your hardcore reporting skills? What planet are you reporting from?" What you said. I read that same article.

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  Posted by David_E_Howell-Oak_Park-MI Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:22am PST

  (Theo Stein, Andrew Lucas) The Denver Post (late October, 2008): "Research on Boulder Creek and the South Platte has uncovered a distrubing problem: Some white sucker fish downstream from Denver and Boulder sewage plants have both male and female reproductive tissue... Now they want to know if chemicals that mimic the female hormone estrogen are to blame... Utilities that provide water to more than two dozen communitites from South Platte don't test for the chemicals... Said biologist John Woodling, who discovered the gender-bending fish :'This is the only thing that has ever really scared me.'" They utilities don't test. No wonder Lori Bongiorno says that the general consensus is that tap water is safe and healthy. Who cares about consensus when it violates reality?

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  Posted by David_E_Howell-Oak_Park-MI Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:30am PST

  "The fluoride-supplies in the water in the USA started with the aluminum industries having an enormous excess of sodium-fluoride ... the aluminum industries didn't care, as they didn't know what to do with their excess of sodium-fluoride. Now they sell it for approximately 3 cents a kilo and earn $15,000,000/year. This kind of fluoride, which also is an ingredient in rat poison (it destroys metabolism) is toxic to humans. They knew this already during World War II, when a Nazi scientist found out that if you give sodium-fluoride to humans they become passive and easy to control. Now it is an ingredient in all conventional tooth paste and in parts of the USA and elsewhere they put it in the drinking-water(!). So, the aluminum industry becomes wealthy and people easier to control."

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  Posted by randell Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:31am PST

  I would not drink the water but they put it in everything you dont have a choice we need it to live and were to busy to care!

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  Posted by David_E_Howell-Oak_Park-MI Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:40am PST

  .. a substance that's scraped off the smokestacks of industrial polluters. They want every person in the community to actually drink this substance... This material is a toxic waste that's regulated by the EPA. It would be illegal to drip it into a river or a stream, but for some reason, it is perfectly legal to drip it into the public water supply and let people drink it....What substance am I talking about? Fluorosilicic acid, otherwise known by its short name, fluoride." "In a sweetheart deal these phosphate companies are spared the expense of disposing of this 'fluosilicic acid' in a toxic waste dump. Instead, the acid is sold to municipalities, shipped in rubber-lined tanker trucks to reservoirs across North America and injected into drinking water for the reduction of cavities in children. (So toxic are the contents of the fluoride trucks that, in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, authorities were alerted to keep a watchful eye on road shipments of the children's tooth-decay reducer.)" writes Bryson in his heavily referenced book. In return, U.S. strategic planners would have a nearly inexhaustible potential supply of domestic fluoride."

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  Posted by David_E_Howell-Oak_Park-MI Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:21am PST

  I'm here as a parent to tell you to clean-up your room. I should not have to clean it for you.

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