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Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Abstract Against American Bureaucratic Cheer Chemicals Drinking Drinking Water Like Out Politicians Red Red Tape Regulations Specific Tape Terms Toxic Turn Water Who Willing

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Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Chemicals Diseases Drinking Drinking Water Government Hundreds Identified Limits Linked Other Pose Risks Scientists Serious Small Still Water

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Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Argue Chemicals Consumed Does Doses Drinking Drinking Water Even Extremely Federal Few Hazardous Health Ill Long Long Periods Low Make Many Meet Necessarily Only Over Periods Pose Researchers Risks Some Someone Toxic Water Will Years

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The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Act After Bacteria Boston Dangerous Discovered Drinking Drinking Water Elsewhere Flowing Lead New New Orleans Orleans Passed Pittsburgh Safe Tests Water

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Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Act Drinking Drinking Water Leaves Officials Only Plant Required Safe Test Them Treatment Water

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Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Around Bacteria Beaches City Collected Dozens Drinking Drinking Water Environmentalists Health New New York New York City Other Pose Risks Samples Say Serious Though Tied Types Upstate Waste Water York

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Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: American Become Common Corn Courses Drinking Drinking Water Even Fields Golf Golf Courses Most Often Used Water

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For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Agency Almost Drinking Drinking Water Environment Humans Officials Risk Said Water Years

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It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Cause Contamination Difficult Disease Drinking Drinking Water Even Hard Instance Like Link Often Particular Pinpoint Polluted Pollution Show Source Specific Tests Water

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Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Accidental Amount Drinking Drinking Water Harm Health Human Massive Requires Toxic Water Well

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