Watch the water. This is a big story.
(calmatters.org)
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Mixed feelings on this as hexavalent chromium is genuinely nasty stuff and it's been proven to be nasty stuff. But I also never trust California so we have to be open to the possibility that there's a scam at play.
Regardless, I can confidently say to GAW: This shit is genuinely bad stuff and has a history of doing horrible things to people who ingest it regularly.
There's a couple of comments on the health supplement chromium picolinate and this is not the same. Hexavalent chromium is chromium in a +6 oxidation state. Isotopes and elements forming compounds have radically different behaviors and effects on the human body.
I think the scam at play is making water excessively expensive for smaller/local water service providers, particularly those away from big cities. Force migration to larger, more populated areas due to rising costs, form “Big Water” as a budding industry in one of the most corrupt states in the Union, and make it as hard as possible to avoid submitting to 15-minute cities as the “new normal” for civilization.
“We’re the government, and we’re here for your safety.”
You very well might be right. Tough to imagine at a bear minimum that there's some kind of massive kickbacks going on here with this program. It is California after all.
One of those situations where I suspect both assertions will be true. This is a scam and hexavalent chromium is bad shit.
Sadly, I think this is the most realistic take here.