We're Blaming the Wrong People for Polluted Tap Water – Wenonah Hauter
Recent coverage of hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium 6) in some of our nation's water supplies vilified the wrong institutions: our municipal water utilities. The real culprits are the industries that dump this and other pollutants into our drinking water sources, and the elected officials who are short-sightedly failing to fund our drinking and wastewater systems. I repeat: tap water and the public agencies that provide it are not the enemy. A vital resource, tap water is sometimes ...[READ MORE]