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Posted: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 8:45AM
City water quality report is dry on some facts
Bernie Tafoya Reporting
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CHICAGO (WBBM) - The city of Chicago mailed out to residents this month its annual water quality report, but it appears information you might care about was left out.
You can find out in the city’s water quality report that water is comprised of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen and that every day the Sun will evaporate a trillion tons of water.
But, you will not find out that, in tests done by the city last year, traces of pharmaceutical drugs and sex hormones were found in drinking water.
The city’s annual water quality report is not required to include that information, as it is about things like lead and pesticides.
If you want to see all the city has found in tests, you have to navigate the city’s Web site.
A federal government scientist tells the Chicago Tribune that we don’t know much about what’s in our drinking water and there’s no indication what the mixtures of the various traces of drugs, chemicals and sex hormones can do.
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