They say the water is safe to drink But is it?

[Moveon]

http://www.courierpress.com/news/201...smell-lingers/

If you can still smell the chemical in the water then how can they believe the authorities when they say the water is safe to drink. The authorities say that the concentration of the chemical that spilled into the river is below 1 ppm. But people are still able to smell the chemical in their water at the tap and coming out of the shower heads.

I know how the politicans play this game. If you can smell it then it's there. And I would just about bet that it's there in concentrations higher than 1 ppm.

Most people have no idea what a PPM really is. And who really knows how many PPM's of any certain chemical in the water is really safe to drink over a long period of time.

Why do we have so many cancers in this country when the authorities are always telling us that the water and air are safe to drink and breath?

And the local health dept. is now refusing to tell the Press how people died. They don't want us to know about how people die because if we know that we might figure out what they are dying from. Cancer clusters can't be found out about if the way people die are kept secrete. The local news paper sued the Health Dept. trying to get the courts to order the local health Dept. to give the data on how people died. Did they die from cancer? Did they have lung cancer or did they have liver cancer. Did they die from heart disease? They always gave out this type of death information in the past. You can't stop these deaths or try to prevent them or delay them if you can't figure out what's causing them.

It's no wonder we dont' trust the Government or the politicians that run the government.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/201...smell-lingers/

[HURRICANEBOB]

Don't risk it....drink beer!

[roadrunner]

Don't risk it....drink beer!

I agree we all know what fish do in water!!!!!

[bassin_bug]

The water is definitely not safe to drink at this time. I read last night that there had been yet another chemical leak into the same river.
If you can smell it, although authorities say the water is safe to drink, the rocks and sand have soaked up some of the chemicals and
can still release it into the water. I wouldn't even eat a fish caught out of those waters. If it didn't make a person sick immediately, who knows what the long range affects could be?

[DJD]

The company Freedom Industries filed for Bankruptcy after the spill. Isn't that grand? I would not drink the water or eat out since ice, tea and coffee will be used in making those items. Plates will be washed in it, food dishes needing water will be using that smelly water and I can't imagine clothes being washed in it. If it stinks coming out of the faucet what will it do to clothes? Animals?
Naw....bottled water and foods I can prepare with that water is what I would use until further notice.