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[Sadsack]

So now we know for sure the CDC can't be trusted:

Post Now - D.C. water may still be contaminated

D.C. water may still be contaminated
By Ashley Halsey III and Mike DeBonis
The water in almost 15,000 D.C. homes that were repaired during a massive effort to remove lead pipes may still be contaminated by dangerous levels of the metal, according to a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If those residences are home to small children, pregnant women or anyone with a compromised immune system, the water should be tested, said George Hawkins, general manager of D.C. Water.

Read the report here. (PDF)

The CDC concluded that homeowners who had pipes only partially replaced might have made the problem worse. The center also confirmed that children living in the District were exposed to lead poisoning from 2000 to 2006 as an inadvertent result of efforts to disinfect the water supply caused lead pipes to corrode and leach into the water that flowed through them.

The findings are a sharp reversal by the federal health agency, which initially claimed that they found no evidence that spikes in the level of lead in the water had harmed D.C. residents. A congressional inquiry concluded in May that the CDC knowingly used false data in making a “scientifically indefensible” claim that the water was safe to drink.
The report marks the first time the CDC has publicly acknowledged that there was measurable health risk from the city’s lead crisis and that the primary remedy appears to have been flawed.

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SS

[jonsi]

I'm getting off topic here, but... How many of us use water filters?

We have good water here in my little town and I don't filter it for drinking water. However, I do have a hot-water filter on my shower head because it filters out the chlorine/fluorine. I live in a really dry climate and these chemicals kill living organisms, including skin tissue and by using a shower filter my skin isn't so dry.

SS, that is sad that there is lead in the drinking water in DC. I don't think our President drinks the tap water (or GMO food!).

In the white light,
~jonsi

[sammy]

Many in the dc area get their drinking water from the potomac river. which is very contaminated. and also pipes are very old that carry the water. I get water from a very deep well in my de velopment but still have filter on system of course Iam futher out near frederick. sammy

[Digit]

I do Jonsi, have done for years.
The water supply here tested + for Aluminium & Barium.
The rain water, + Aluminium, Barium, Boron and Arsenic.
They don't put fluoride in our water...yet.