{"id":324,"date":"2009-12-13T23:27:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T04:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-12-20T01:03:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T06:03:49","slug":"ewg-study-finds-100s-of-pollutants-in-nations-tap-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"EWG Study Finds Hundreds of Pollutants in Nation&#8217;s Tap Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AScribe NEWSWIRE, December 12, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/waterfillglass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"waterfill glass\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/waterfillglass_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"waterfill glass\" width=\"194\" height=\"129\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> Tap water in many large metropolitan areas is polluted with a cocktail of chemical contaminants. These pollutants usually don&#8217;t violate any legal standards, but they often come in potentially toxic combinations that raise serious questions about the long-term safety of drinking the water. Pensacola, Fla.; Riverside, Calif.; and Las Vegas top the list of major cities with the most contaminated tap water.<\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented analysis of 20 million tap water quality tests performed by water utilities between 2004 and 2009, Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that water suppliers detected a total of 316 contaminants in water delivered to the public. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set enforceable standards for only 114 of these pollutants. <a href=\"http:\/\/newswire.ascribe.org\/cgi-bin\/behold.pl?ascribeid=20091211.160954&amp;time=09%2000%20PST&amp;year=2009&amp;public=0\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tap water in many large metropolitan areas is polluted with a cocktail of chemical contaminants. These pollutants usually don&#8217;t violate any legal standards, but they often come in potentially toxic combinations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[88,83,87,85,80,86,82,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}