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    “The data gaps are so huge. It is abominable. We have a huge number of people in this country living completely in the dark,”

    the Safe Water Drinking Act and the Lead and Copper Rule, but leaves it to states, utilities, and property owners to test that water and enforce the laws.

    The rules require water systems serving at least 100,000 people, for instance, to test 100 taps every six months. The requirements decrease from there. Systems that serve, say, 90,000 people must test just 60 taps. Smaller systems, only five. And certain systems qualify for reduced testing. In some cases, that means testing once every nine years.

    “Would you really rely on a sample of 100 people in New York or Boston?” says Feigl-Deng. “In no universe is that going to give you a statistically significant result. That’s just ludicrous.”

    “If you had nothing but lead going straight to your house, nobody would know that, because all that gets captured is there was a violation.”

    “This problem demonstrates the need for a federal program to underwrite lead clean-up,” Hsu says. “Cash-strapped people and municipal governments do not have the resources necessary to remedy such a broad and persistent hazard.”

    “You’re talking about only 25 to 30 states that consistently report blood lead levels. And poor and rural people who don’t go to the doctor are less likely to be reported,” says Feng. “By the time kids have elevated lead levels, gosh, it’s almost too late.”

    A recent USA Todayinvestigation found seven water systems in Ohio failed last year to notify the public of heightened lead levels within 60 days last as mandated by the EPA. Several more in Arizona that reported unsafe water levels to the government years before only alerted the public after USA Today began its investigation.

    negligence usually comes down to a lack of resources and concerns over the cost of addressing the problems, problems that could be exacerbated by President Trump desire to cut the EPA's funding by 30 percent because federal funding helps defray the cost of testing.

    Testing water and mitigating contamination is expensive, Griffiths says, but states must consider the repercussions of poisoning an entire generation of people.

    Lead poisoning can cause developmental delay in children, reduced IQ levels, anemia, and hypertension in adults. “These are kids who are not going to be as smart as they would have been,” Griffiths says.

    Given that, you can consider spending the money for more and better testing an investment in the future.

    https://www.wired.com/story/data-lead-poisoning-flint

    People would rather vote down taxes to finance water bonds than protect their children.

    I guarantee you, capitalist-owned, privatized water systems don't GAF about lead in water, only about ROI.





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    you mean inside of all the probing they are doing on Russia and just let the special counsel do that
    they should do something else

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    BREAKING: Poison Attack on Thousands of Americans.

    Thousands of American children have been poisoned.

    Thankfully, the US wasted no time in responding and….oh wait, my bad.
    That’s just in Flint:

    All of Flint’s 8,657 children under the age of six should be considered exposed, according to a recent citywide public health directive.


    Republican Rick Snyder, who became governor in 2010 without ever serving in public office.

    His administration placed the city under emergency management in 2011 and

    forced the city to use a contaminated, filthy river for water.

    For 18 months,
    the Snyder administration ignored all signs that water was contaminated, and

    the crisis is still going on today.


    Yet it was a greedy, slimeball republican who poisoned a poverty-stricken city.

    the results of the multi-year poisoning are here. Lead causes irreversible damage to the developing brain in kids 5 and under, and our worst fears are just now being realized:

    Now, the heartbreaking data has started to come in.

    It was recently reported that between 2013 and 2017,

    the portion of Flint’s third-graders who tested as proficient in reading at grade level fell from
    41.8 percent to 10.7 percent.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/15/1757194/-BREAKING-Poison-Attack-on-Thousands-of-Americans

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    Flint Residents Shocked By State’s Decision To End Bottled Water Delivery

    City and state officials said they received little advance warning of the decision.


    On Friday, the state of Michigan announced that the quality of Flint’s water was “
    restored” and the water therefore as safe to drink as in other big cities. It also said the state government would no longer provide bottled water to city residents.

    Yet some locals aren’t convinced their taps are safe. After all,

    the government downplayed the contamination four years ago, even after the water had turned brown.

    “If you know the story behind how we got in this situation like we did, I think you can understand why we the people do not trust those who are supposed to be looking out for the best interests of all of [Flint’s] residents,”

    the decision to discontinue bottled water delivery is contrary to available science,

    said Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, whose research exposed the e in Flint kids’ blood lead levels and forced the state to admit its mistake.

    Flint is currently replacing the thousands of lead pipes connecting water mains to people’s homes, making it only the third city to undertake wholesale lead pipe removal after Lansing, Michigan and Madison, Wisconsin.

    The work in Flint won’t be finished until later next year at the earliest.

    “This is a period of increased risk,” said Hanna-Attisha,

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flint-residents-safe-water_us_5acbc2a2e4b07a3485e76237

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    and of course, Repug counting fraud in a hyper-critical state:

    Detroit Voting Machine Failures Were Widespread on Election Day

    More than 80 voting machines in Detroit malfunctioned on Election Day, officials say, resulting in ballot discrepancies in 59% of precincts that raise questions about the reliability of future election results in a city dominated by Democratic and minority voters.

    “This is not the first time,” adds Daniel Baxter, elections director for the city. “We’ve had this problem in nearly every election that we administer in the city of Detroit.”

    those ballot counting machines that experienced mechanical malfunction are ones that cannot be recounted to divine voter intent from the paper ballots.

    The state’s voting laws also specify that if there’s any kind of mistake made by a poll worker, even something as small as forgetting to tally one person on the entrance log, the votes in that precinct cannot be recounted.

    http://time.com/4599886/detroit-voti...-election-day/

    I read elsewhere where 75K votes in Flint were not counted

    Trash won Michigan by 11,837 votes




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