Post by Mech on Jan 2, 2004 16:51:24 GMT -5
Can you trust the Government with your drinking water?
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Did EPA mislead public on water?
Agency audits suggest reports overstated utilities’ record
By Guy Gugliotta
THE WASHINGTON POST
www.msnbc.com/news/948891.asp?0cl=c3&cp1=1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general is investigating whether the agency is deliberately misleading the public by overstating the purity of the nation’s drinking water, according to EPA officials and agency documents.
THE INQUIRY was launched June 18, five days before then-EPA Administrator Christine
Todd Whitman released the “Draft Report on the Environment,” which stated that “94 percent of the population served by community water systems were served by systems that met all health-based standards.”
Internal agency documents, however, show that EPA audits for at least five years have suggested that the percentage of the population with safe drinking water is much lower — 79 to 84 percent in 2002 — putting an additional 30 million Americans at potential risk.
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Did EPA mislead public on water?
Agency audits suggest reports overstated utilities’ record
By Guy Gugliotta
THE WASHINGTON POST
www.msnbc.com/news/948891.asp?0cl=c3&cp1=1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general is investigating whether the agency is deliberately misleading the public by overstating the purity of the nation’s drinking water, according to EPA officials and agency documents.
THE INQUIRY was launched June 18, five days before then-EPA Administrator Christine
Todd Whitman released the “Draft Report on the Environment,” which stated that “94 percent of the population served by community water systems were served by systems that met all health-based standards.”
Internal agency documents, however, show that EPA audits for at least five years have suggested that the percentage of the population with safe drinking water is much lower — 79 to 84 percent in 2002 — putting an additional 30 million Americans at potential risk.
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GET YOUR WATER FILTERS ladies and gents.
The BEST.......
www.berkeyfilters.com/berkey.htm
