{"id":1633,"date":"2018-01-15T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2018-04-29T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T15:42:54","slug":"half-americans-traces-radium-public-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/half-americans-traces-radium-public-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half of Americans Have Traces of Radium in Public Drinking Water Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqpmag.com\/radium-contamination-found-more-22000-drinking-water-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Water Quality Products (WQP) magazine<\/em><\/a> recently reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewg.org\/research\/170-million-us-drink-radioactive-tap-water-trump-nominee-faked-data-hide-cancer-risk#.Wlyx9JM-ene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new study from the Environmental Working Group (EWG)<\/a>, which found <strong>170 million+ Americans have radium in treated drinking water.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report also found public water system data from 2010 through 2015 found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over <strong>22,000 systems <\/strong>had traces of radium<\/li>\n<li><strong>158 systems in 27 states<\/strong> had radium above the federal legal limit<\/li>\n<li>In Texas approximately <strong>80% of the state population<\/strong> was served by public water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the article, WQP notes that radium has been linked to cancer and quotes Alexi Temkin, a EWG\u00a0toxicologist, as saying, <em>\u201cIt has been associated with increases in bone cancer. 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