The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has discovered unsafe levels of uranium in the water. The researchers published their findings in the journal Lancet Planetary Health. They discovered the radioactive element in some of the U.S. drinking water supply, especially around semi-urban, Hispanic communities. The EPA found unsafe levels of uranium in the water The EPA …
The EPA says that it’s unclear how much of a threat higher levels of uranium pose to our water supply. However, it does want to completely remove the radioactive, metallic compound from the U.S. drinking water supply altogether. That’s because it has become one of the most underappreciated contaminants in the public drinking supply.
Our public drinking systems provide over 90 percent of water to the country. As such, it is concerning to see radioactive elements like uranium reaching high contamination levels.A sick man lies in a hospital bed. Image source: kieferpix/Adobe
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