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...bottles and instructions; you ship back samples and receive a detailed analysis. Two particularly reliable labs are Suburban Water Testing Laboratories (800-433-6595) and National Testing Laboratories (800-458-3330). Prices range from $25 for a simple test for lead to $178 for the works, including screening for bacteria, nitrate, lead and PCB levels...
...water into a bilious brew, sickening nearly half the population and killing one person -- and a few weeks ago, the same bug turned up again during a routine test. In July residents in the Chelsea section of New York City had to boil their water to kill potentially dangerous bacteria. Just three weeks ago, health officials tacked warnings on 71 houses in Gastonia, North Carolina, advising people that an industrial chemical had been detected in their wells at levels many times higher than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows...
...only a tiny part of the problem. According to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council, there were some 250,000 violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in 1991 and 1992 alone, affecting more than 120 million people. Americans are ingesting such noxious pollutants as bacteria, viruses, lead, gasoline, radioactive gases and carcinogenic industrial compounds. "Like so many other problems that we have swept under the rug during the past decade and more," says David Ozonoff of Boston University's School of Public Health, "the national task of assuring that our drinking water is safe...
...just the environmentalists who see a problem. A survey by the federal Centers for Disease Control shows that in 1989 and 1990, 4,288 people in 16 states got sick, and four died, from bacteria and viruses in their water. And last spring the nonpartisan General Accounting Office found, among other things, that many water systems do not test for all the pollutants the EPA considers dangerous, and don't evaluate distribution systems, operators or inspectors. Based on these and other studies, the N.R.D.C. has identified several especially worrisome hazards...
PATHOGENS: These include bacteria, viruses and protozoa such as the cryptosporidium that struck Milwaukee. These sicken 900,000 people a year, says the N.R.D.C. report, and kill perhaps 900, usually those with weak immune systems (the very young and very old, AIDS sufferers and organ-transplant patients...