https://waterkeeper.org/
Safe Drinking Water Act
Arsenic
Water Testing
nitrates in water
Water stats by Anne Nigra - https://annenigra.github.io/
What causes water contamination in places like Sebastapol? Who is working to clean up the water in these counties?
Stinson Beach has Cadmium and coliform bacteria. See Bay Area Spring Water Why?
Local spring water delivery services. This one is for the North Bay. There's a market.
Inequalities in Public Water Arsenic Concentrations in Counties and Community Water Systems across the United States, 2006–2011 - Anne Nigra, Columbia
Lead Pipes
Milwaukee's Radical Solution to America's Clean Water Crisis
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Lead pipes were in use until 1986. Any home built before 1986 with no filter is putting lead in the water.
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"In Milwaukee, black kids in poor neighborhoods are four times more likely to be poisoned by lead." What's the source on this?
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Coalition of Lead Emergency in Milwaukee
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5% of children under the age of six have lead levels above 5ug/dL - John Meurer, MD
- key question: how much lead exposure leads to that kind of concentration?
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in lower income neighborhoods it's 15%
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what is the map of lead pipes in california?
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why is replacing lead pipes so grueling, slow, and expensive in the US? how have other countries dealt with this?
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apparently low tds water leeches lead from pipes. so whole house water filters that strip minerals can leech more lead.
Flint Water Crisis
Core issue: Flint switched from Detroit's treated Lake Heron water to Flint River water, which was more corrosive. The corrosive water leeched lead from pipes, causing widespread lead poisoning.
Normally cities use things like "corrosion inhibitors" to help this problem. These were not used.