Water Pollution

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WIRE CABLES ARE LEACHING CHEMICALS INTO LAKE TAHOE STUDY FINDS 😡😭

ACCORDINBG TO COPILOT:

Yes, Lake Tahoe has been found to have lead pollution, primarily due to old underwater telephone cables left behind by AT&T’s Pacific Bell Telephone Company. These cables, which contain significant amounts of lead, have been leaching toxic lead into the lake for decades.

Recent investigations have revealed alarmingly high levels of lead in certain areas of the lake, such as Emerald Bay, where lead concentrations exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits for drinking water by over 2,500 times. Efforts are underway to remove these cables and mitigate the pollution

09/12/2020 Thirty Mile Stanislaus River Clean Up from Knights Ferry CA to Ripon CA.

We pulled 5 bags of trash and 6 tires out of a quarter mile stretch of the river in Riverbank.

Please RSVP here so we can keep track of parking.

Here is a link to Michigan's Water pollution problem talking about EPAs failure to regulate harmful chemicals in water.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/01/michigans-draft-pfas-regulations-not-strong-enough-state-told-at-hearing.html?fbclid=IwAR04bq6srXRVXuh5ClkmVZ05P8Am-z0fw65-k_IdnGsRSfFU7M8-tHjhkpw

Water pollution is a real problem plaguing communities all across the world from third world countries to first class countries.

In America water pollution is becoming a serious issue with places like Flint Michigan, Newark New Jersey and Fresno California being subjected to contaminated water sources. To make matters worse just under half the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, and fishing.

That is just in America alone. In developing countries around the world more than half of their industrial waste is being dumped untreated into the usable water supply. For example, more than half of Chinas rivers and lakes are polluted and unfit for human consumption.

This is just the tip of the iceberg everyone. We need to act now before more pipeline infrastructures start failing but it is estimated to cost billions beyond billions of dollars to replace Americas pipeline infrastructure alone.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-water-crisis-everything-you-need-know

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/millions-american-homes-have-lead-water/597826/