Margaret Flowers in Truthout.org political website

On Environment: Water should be tested for radioactivity and heavy metals

It's hard to miss the water contamination that residents in Flint, Michigan, are experiencing. Television footage shows family members holding bottles of yellow, orange or brown water. They could see and taste the change in their water quality shortly after Gov. Rick Snyder ordered the switch to supply water from the polluted Flint River, rather than Lake Huron, without adding anti-corrosives to prevent leaching from lead pipes in early 2014.

Since national attention has turned to Flint, information from other cities is coming to light showing similar problems. Not talked about, perhaps because it is harder to see, is a national water contamination crisis caused by radioactive and other heavy metals leaking from the more than 15,000 abandoned uranium mines. Water should be tested for radioactivity, as well as for heavy metals such as lead. Water should be tested for radioactivity, as well as for heavy metals such as lead.

Source: Truthout OpEd by Margaret Flowers and Jill Stein Feb 5, 2016

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