The term 'Unsafe Levels' is determined by regulators. Regulators continue to move the goal posts to be relevant. Ex-before 2002 the 'Safe' limit on arsenic in the water was 50 PPM (parts per million). The EPA decided to drop that level to 10 PPM. As a result, the water company I worked for had to spend $200M to build a treatment plant to remove the 'extra' arsenic.
There were no regulations in place before 1991. How many people died or were make ill from it? None
There in an MCL for mercury in drinking water of 4ppm. One flu shot will give you 20,000 ppm,
https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/radionuclides-rule.
Do you want to know why your drinking water is so expensive? It's because regulators require them to treat water for some compounds to an MCL of part per billion or even parts per trillion.
This is the line in the article that you need to see.
"Researchers are calling for additional funding and regulation to forestall affected by uranium publicity."
The method is to do a lousy study claiming that people will die, and then demand money for research so we can fix the problem we just invented.
BTW it is a very poorly written article.
I spent 36 years in the water industry, and we had a saying called the 'Contaminant of the month', which was the new compound that some regulator came up with that we were going to have to remove from the water at a cost of billions of dollars.
The compound had been in the water for centuries without issue, but now it needed to be removed. Why you ask. Well because drinking water with the compound all your life could result in your death at around 90, but if we removed it, one or two people might live until 91, so long as they don't smoke, drink, chew, or go with girls who do.
The term 'Unsafe Levels' is determined by regulators. Regulators continue to move the goal posts to be relevant. Ex-before 2002 the 'Safe' limit on arsenic in the water was 50 PPM (parts per million). The EPA decided to drop that level to 10 PPM. As a result, the water company I worked for had to spend $200M to build a treatment plant to remove the 'extra' arsenic.
This is fear mongering. https://www.wqa.org/Portals/0/Technical/Technical%20Fact%20Sheets/2014_Uranium.pdf
There were no regulations in place before 1991. How many people died or were make ill from it? None There in an MCL for mercury in drinking water of 4ppm. One flu shot will give you 20,000 ppm, https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/radionuclides-rule.
Do you want to know why your drinking water is so expensive? It's because regulators require them to treat water for some compounds to an MCL of part per billion or even parts per trillion.
Thanks for the insight.
This is the line in the article that you need to see. "Researchers are calling for additional funding and regulation to forestall affected by uranium publicity." The method is to do a lousy study claiming that people will die, and then demand money for research so we can fix the problem we just invented. BTW it is a very poorly written article.
Deleted the post after your initial comment..thanks..I fell for it..
I spent 36 years in the water industry, and we had a saying called the 'Contaminant of the month', which was the new compound that some regulator came up with that we were going to have to remove from the water at a cost of billions of dollars. The compound had been in the water for centuries without issue, but now it needed to be removed. Why you ask. Well because drinking water with the compound all your life could result in your death at around 90, but if we removed it, one or two people might live until 91, so long as they don't smoke, drink, chew, or go with girls who do.