The following report is from The Defender:
About 2.3 million Americans are exposed to high natural strontium levels in their drinking water, a metal that can harm bone health in children, according to a United States Geological Survey (USGS) study.
The study, published in Applied Geochemistry, found that almost every groundwater sample across 32 U.S. aquifers had detectable strontium levels, while 2.3% exceeded 4 milligrams per liter (mg/L), the maximum amount that people should consume routinely, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The public and private wells extending from these aquifers provide drinking water for 2.3 million people.
While low amounts of natural strontium are safe and even beneficial for the human body, these high concentrations can stunt bone growth in children who lack adequate calcium intake. Strontium can replace calcium in bones, weakening them and limiting development, according to Sarah Yang, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ groundwater toxicologist.
We’re more worried about infants and children because their bones are actively growing. Generally infants and children can absorb more strontium in their intestines, and adults can’t.
Sarah Yang
High strontium in drinking water is linked to rickets in children, an extremely rare skeletal condition causing soft, sometimes deformed, bones.
Strontium, a soft metal that originates from minerals like celestine, makes its way into drinking water naturally. Aquifers with high strontium concentrations are often surrounded by carbonate rock containing limestone and dolomite.
In the USGS study, author MaryLynn Musgrove, a research physical scientist, found that 86% of people exposed to high strontium levels drink water supplied by carbonate rock aquifers. More than half of them are using Florida’s underground reservoirs, where some freshwater has been blending with limestone and dolomite for 26,000 years.
Texas’ carbonate aquifers also stood out.The Edwards-Trinity aquifer system, a sandstone and carbonate formation spanning from Oklahoma to western Texas, had the most frequent occurrence of high strontium concentrations in its corresponding wells.
Dolomite is abundant in the bedrock of eastern Wisconsin, where strontium levels are among the highest of U.S. drinking water supplies.
While the USGS study mainly looked at areas exceeding 4 mg/L of strontium in samples, some communities living atop these dolomite layers drink water with more than 25 mg/L, the one-day health advisory limit for children.
We have a lot of communities that have values above 20, 30, 50 mg/L.
John Luczaj. A professor of geosciences at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, told EHN.
Removal Of Strontium From Drinking Water
While its radioactive sibling, strontium-90, is regulated, natural strontium contamination is unregulated by the EPA.
The major dilemma, according to Victor Rivera-Diaz, a writer and researcher for Save the Water, is that it is still a “public health mystery.” While some research has conclusively linked strontium to bone degradation, a lack of data has kept the EPA from regulating it under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
It is a problem. It definitely requires more attention, even more so in the areas that are prone to high contamination.
Victor Rivera-Diaz
But this is easier said than done, Rivera-Diaz explained.
Strontium cannot be removed with conventional water treatment technology. Thus, communities would have to look to other systems, such as point-of-entry reverse osmosis.
Some of these technologies can be quite costly, so that might be a barrier for lower-income communities.
Reverse osmosis systems and water softeners are incredibly effective in removing strontium concentrations.
If it was up to me, I would, in the short term, figure out a way to subsidize technologies that are proven to filter out strontium, especially in those communities where those levels are well above 4 mg/L.
“Forever Chemicals”
The following report is from the Trends Journal:
The Guardian, working with Consumer Reports (CR) on a nine-month investigation of America’s water supply, published the 31 March report: “Alarming levels of forever chemicals, arsenic and lead in samples taken across the US.”
The report opens with:
Since the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, access to safe water for all Americans has been a US government goal. Yet millions of people continue to face serious water quality problems because of contamination, deteriorating infrastructure, and inadequate treatment at water plants.
Among the key findings:
- “More than 35% of the samples had PFAS, potentially toxic ‘forever chemicals,’ at levels above CR’s recommended maximum.
- About 8% of samples had arsenic, at levels above CR’s recommended maximum.
- In total, 118 out of 120 samples had detectable levels of lead.
- About 8% of samples had levels of arsenic – which gets into drinking water through natural deposits or industrial or agricultural pollution – above CR’s recommended maximum for drinking water.
- Almost every sample had measurable amounts of lead, a heavy metal that leaches from corroding water lines and home plumbing fixtures. It is unsafe at any level.”
Investigations
If the term “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS, sounds familiar to readers of the Trends Journal, that’s because we have been reporting on its toxic effects for over a year now.
See our articles:
28 January: PFAS CONTAMINATION MORE WIDESPREAD
11 February: FOREVER CHEMICALS: POISON ON TAP
30 March: SPERM DOWN FOR THE COUNT, PENISES FALLING SHORT
Now, the huge environmental concern is brought to light by The Guardian/CR collaboration:
Investigation into the health effects of PFAS exposure is ongoing, but some of the strongest evidence about their potential risks comes from research of about 69,000 people in and around Parkersburg, W Va. The research – part of a settlement between DuPont, which makes some PFAS, and residents of the community – was depicted in the 2019 movie Dark Waters.
The investigation found a
“Probable link” between exposure to a type of PFAS and six health problems: high cholesterol, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and testicular and kidney cancers. Research has also linked some PFAS to learning delays in children.
At least 2,337 communities in 49 states have drinking water known to be contaminated with PFAS, according to a January analysis by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an advocacy organization.
The investigation notes that while citizens have the opportunity to lobby local governments for remediation, the bureaucratic red tape makes it nearly impossible. And as CR’s director of food policy, Brian Ronholm, writes in the report:
Americans shouldn’t have to navigate bureaucracy and be forced to make significant investments in order to access clean tap water.
While the U.S. House of Representatives did authorize over $22 billion for replacing water lines containing lead particles, the Senate refused to endorse it.
TRENDPOST: This Guardian article was ignored by the fear-mongering Presstitutes, their corporate pimps, and government whoremasters who – if they reported the toxic dangers infecting the water supply at one-tenth of their COVID War hysteria – would spark a mass movement to reverse this deadly trend.
It should be noted that The Guardian report does not include the entire nation… or nations across the planet whose water supplies have long been contaminated with toxic chemicals that are killing people, wildlife, plants, etc.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 11:18
Since man wants to poison its fellow man and destroy the earth in the process, the Lord will give them a bit of their own “medicine.”
[10] And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; [11] And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.[3] And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. [4] And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. [5] And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. [6] For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. [7] And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.Revelation 8:10-11, 16:3-7
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