New EPA data shows iodine-131 in Los Angeles tap water

[flamingdem]

Still no testing for radioactive cesium

No story just charts via:

http://enenews.com/

Here:



http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Drinking-Water-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/4ig7-9eqd

[Wilms]

1. The bottled water companies are lovin' it.

No matter their supply may be compromised as well. People will flood to stores to drink from their corporatized taps.

And they'll use the profits to corporatize more sources.

[flamingdem]

2. I know very few people who are reacting to this information

since so far it's mostly on alternative sites and people are still buying milk so ..

[Blacksheep214]

3. Under the Republican budget

We won't have to worry about these levels because they will defund the monitoring.

Problem solved!

[caraher]

4. I'm not sure this requires much of a reaction

Yes, it's better not to have I-131 in drinking water than to have it. But the biggest value in the table was 1.6 picocuries per liter, or 0.06 Bq/liter, from a late March sample in Chattanooga. The environmental damage caused by buying bottled water instead surely swamps the (nonzero but small) health risk posed by this barely detectable concentration of I-131.

[wtmusic]

5. Looks like it flew right over L.A. to Columbus OH, then came back again.

Doesn't taste bad, actually. Hints of melon and walnuts.