We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals
I care a lot about clean water & air, and I know there are a few places in the US where this is a very serious issue. That said, this piece started feeling a little exaggerated as I was reading. Like the first thing I thought was strange is how they sampled a single home in a given geographic area. It’s critically important to find out whether tainted water is coming from the city’s water facility or getting polluted in the pipes along the way. Sampling at the water treatment facility would reveal that. Sampling several homes would do it to.<p>It also seems to lack a lot of comparative context needed to actually understand how levels of chemical compare, how much is in bottled water, how much is in other countries, how much is in “clean” water systems.<p>Anyway, I got to the bottom and saw the line about funding of the series and suddenly thought maybe some industry was funding this. I googled for a minute and didn’t see any donor lists, but I did immediately bump into this article by the American Council on Science and Health: (Is this a reputable organization?)<p>“Toxic America: The Guardian Spreads Chemophobia And Anti-Americanism”<p><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/07/01/toxic-america-guardian-spreads-chemophobia-and-anti-americanism-14128" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/07/01/toxic-america-guardian-...</a>