Here’s how she recommends you protect yourself.
Erin Brockovich, who some of you know as the woman who fought against California’s Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) in 1996 and later had a movie made about her, is a fierce supporter of clean water. And because of her work over the last couple of decades, when she sees water the color of “light pee” she doesn’t drink it; at low levels, chromium-6 – a cancer-causing chemical – can turn clear water yellow, and when it’s really bad, it can turn it purple.
But again, given all her experience with water she knows that even when it’s perfectly clear, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s safe:
“I don’t want to drink chlorine. I don’t want to drink ammonia. None of us do. I feel safe enough and know enough about my tap water that I shower and bathe, but I don’t know. I don’t like how it tastes, smells.”1
Her deep concern about our water comes from what she has described as “an unspoken ’emerging crisis’ the US: More unsafe drinking water is flowing out of our taps, and our system is unprepared to deal with the problem.”2
And believe these two things; one, no one is coming for us or going to protect us. We have to be proactive. And two, our newest (although it’s not so new) and biggest emerging contaminant in our nation’s water is PFOA — Perfluorooctanoic acid. […]
1. Business Insider
2. Business Insider
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