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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of cities in California have problems with hexavalent chromium and arsenic in tap water and nothing is really done about it. It’s naturally occurring, abundant, and really hard to remove from the water.

https://www.modbee.com/news/article33667080.html

[–] partial_accumen 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm reading the article you posted as well as a few others I found to explain the science, risk, and scale.

This feels like you're posting it as more alarmist than it is:

Its not the result of industrial pollution, as it is sometimes elsewhere in the world.
This looks like its also a small pocket of population (70,000 people according to your article which is even less than Flint Michigan at its worst)
California is following a stricter standard double that of the Federal requirement and even then....
...none of the samples exceed the extra strict safe standards of 50 ppb "The highest reading from a single well came to 42 parts per billion"

[–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 7 months ago

But since it's in California, isn't there a risk of cancer?