Bad news, but nice to see the MSM actual report something newsworthy. This is an outrage, mostly because while we watch American Idol, our kids are being POISONED.
CUTLER, Calif. – Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have surfaced at public and private schools in all 50 states — in small towns and inner cities alike.
But the problem has gone largely unmonitored by the federal government, even as the number of water safety violations has multiplied.
"It's an outrage," said Marc Edwards, an engineer at Virginia Tech who has been honored for his work on water quality. "If a landlord doesn't tell a tenant about lead paint in an apartment, he can go to jail. But we have no system to make people follow the rules to keep school children safe?"
The contamination is most apparent at schools with wells, which represent 8 to 11 percent of the nation's schools. Roughly one of every five schools with its own water supply violated the Safe Drinking Water Act in the past decade, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency analyzed by the AP.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090925/ap_on_re_us/us_toxic_water_schools
Who hear thinks the government CARES ABOUT OUR HEALTH???? Well, they don’t care and it is high time that we start taking care of ourselves, our families and our friends.
