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Nearly One in Four Americans' Drinking Water Comes from Untested or Contaminated Systems
May 3, 2017 : Washington DC : BWW
:
Nearly
77
million
people?roughly
a
quarter
of
the
U.S.
population-spread
across
all
50
states
were
served
by
water
systems
reporting
violations
of
the
Safe
Drinking
Water
Act
in
2015,
according
to
a
report
issued
today
by
the
Natural
Resources
Defense
Council
(NRDC).
The
offenses
ranged
from
arsenic
to
nitrate
contamination,
and
included
often-serious
failures
to
test
or
report
contamination
levels.
The
report
found
the
top
dozen
states
with
the
most
offenses
based
on
population
were
(in
order):
Texas
Florida
Pennsylvania
New
Jersey
Georgia
Washington
Ohio
California
Arizona
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Maryland
NRDC's
report
exposes
health-based
violations
of
the
Safe
Drinking
Water
Act,
as
well
as
violations
for
improper
water
monitoring
and
reporting,
at
more
than
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