POISONING OUR WATER, SILENT KILLERS, PART 2

[UPDATE BEGINS AT *** BELOW, AUGUST 20, 2013]

WATER...WE ALL HAVE TO HAVE WATER TO LIVE.
 WITHOUT WATER, DEATH COMES QUICKLY.

UNDER THE MOST EXTREME CONDITIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR A CHILD LEFT IN A HOT CAR, OR AN ATHLETE TRAINING HARD IN HIGH TEMPERATURES, DEHYDRATION, HYPERTHERMIA, AND DEATH CAN OCCUR IN A FEW MINUTES TO HOURS.

UNDER BETTER CONDITIONS, A HEALTHY ADULT IN COMFORTABLE SURROUNDINGS COULD POSSIBLY SURVIVE WITHOUT WATER FOR A WEEK OR SO.

BUT WHAT IS WORSE IS THAT THE VERY WATER WE DEPEND ON FOR LIFE IS BEING TURNED INTO A SLOW POISON, KILLING US SILENTLY, DEBILITATING US, BRINGING PAINFUL CONDITIONS FROM WHICH THERE IS NO ESCAPE, FETAL ABNORMALITIES, EARLY DEATH..

FEW KNOW THAT BOTH FLUORIDE AND CHLORINE, WHICH ARE DAILY ADDED TO OUR DRINKING WATER, WERE ONCE BRANDED AS CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF WAR.
MORE ON THAT, MUCH MORE, BELOW.

FOR ALL 'DEVELOPED' NATIONS, WATER IS, AND HAS BEEN, RENDERED TOXIC.

THE SOURCES OF THE CONTAMINANTS IN WATER VARY FROM INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL"RUN-OFF", SPRAYED-ON PESTICIDES THAT LEECH INTO GROUNDWATER AND FLOW IN OUR STREAMS, TO STORAGE OF LEAKY BARRELS OF CHEMICALS AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WASTES, TO STRIP-MINING SITES, TO DUMPED JET FUEL AND ROCKET FUEL OVER LARGE AREAS FROM OVERHEAD, TO THE SIMPLE ACT OF URINATING AND FLUSHING A TOILET WHICH SENDS EVERYTHING IN A HUMAN SYSTEM, DRUGS INCLUDED, TO "WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES" THAT CANNOT HANDLE THE FILTRATION NEEDED TO ELIMINATE SUCH THINGS BEFORE THE 'TREATED' WATER IS PUMPED BACK TO US FOR CONSUMPTION.

AND THAT WATER IS PUMPED TO CONSUMERS THROUGH AGED AND FAULTY PIPES THAT ALSO INJECT THINGS LIKE LEAD, ARSENIC, AND A PLETHORA OF TOXINS THROUGH OUR HOME FAUCETS.

***OUR FRESH WATER SUPPLIES AT HIGH RISK***

OUR DAMS ARE OLD AND SUBJECT TO EASY ATTACK.

***UPDATE, 08/20/2013***
DID YOU KNOW OUR DATABASE ON WEAKNESSES IN OUR AMERICAN DAMS WAS HACKED IN MAY, 2013?

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT, WHY INCLUDE THIS HERE?
BECAUSE DAMS CREATE OUR LARGEST FRESH WATER SUPPLIES, FOR DRINKING, FOR LIFE...

DESTROY THE DAMS, DESTROY VAST RESERVOIRS OF AVAILABLE WATER. 

DESTROY THE DAMS, KILL MILLIONS WHO LIVE BELOW THE DAMS.

May 1, 2013
<<U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into a sensitive infrastructure database to the Chinese government or military cyber warriors, according to U.S. officials.

The compromise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams (NID) is raising new concerns that China is preparing to conduct a future cyber attack against the national electrical power grid, including the growing percentage of electricity produced by hydroelectric dams.

According to officials familiar with intelligence reports, the Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams was hacked by an unauthorized user believed to be from China, beginning in January and uncovered earlier this month.

The database contains sensitive information on vulnerabilities of every major dam in the United States. There are around 8,100 major dams across waterways in the United States.

“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is aware that access to the National Inventory of Dams (NID), to include sensitive fields of information not generally available to the public, was given to an unauthorized individual in January 2013 who was subsequently determined to not to have proper level of access for the information,” Pierce said in a statement.

“[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers] immediately revoked this user’s access to the database upon learning that the individual was not, in fact, authorized full access to the NID,” he said.

The database categorizes U.S. dams by the number of people that would be killed if a dam fails. They include “significant” and “high” hazard levels.

Michelle Van Cleave, the former National Counterintelligence Executive, a senior counterintelligence policymaker, said the database compromise highlights the danger posed by hackers who are targeting critical U.S. infrastructure for future attacks.

“In the wrong hands, the Army Corps of Engineers’ database could be a cyber attack roadmap for a hostile state or terrorist group to disrupt power grids or target dams in this country,” Van Cleave said in an email.

“You may ask yourself, why would anyone want to do that? You could ask the same question about why anyone would plant IEDs at the Boston Marathon.”

Van Cleave said the intrusion appears to be part of an effort to collect “vulnerability and targeting data” for future cyber or military attacks.

“Alarm bells should be going off because we have next to no national security emergency preparedness planning in place to deal with contingencies like that,” she said.>>

YES, ALARM BELLS SHOULD BE GOING OFF, BUT HOW MANY MAINSTREAM MEDIA SITES EVEN BOTHERED TO REPORT THIS?

AND NOW THAT THE INFORMATION IS "OUT THERE SOMEWHERE", WHAT DOES THE U.S. THINK IT CAN DO ABOUT THAT?

WELL, IT BLOODY WELL ISN'T PLANNING TO FIX THE PROBLEMS!
OUR IGNOBLE CONGRESS WILL NEVER ALLOT FUNDS FOR THAT!

NO, WE CAN FUND MOSQUE REPAIRS IN EGYPT, MISSILES AND ARMS FOR THOSE LIBYAN 'REBELS' AND SYRIAN "FREEDOM FIGHTERS",  BILLIONS FOR DRONES TO SPY ON EVERYTHING THAT MOVES HERE, BUT ZIP, NADA, ZERO FOR FIXING AMERICA'S PROBLEMS.

IF OBAMA WOULD SAY HE'S DEAD-SET AGAINST REPAIRS TO THESE FAILING DAMS, CONGRESS WOULD VOTE FOR REPAIRS IN A HEARTBEAT!

THANKS, CONGRESSIONAL JERKS! 
THANKS FOR FAILING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE YET AGAIN, AND THANK YOU, TOO, YOU ABOMINATION, DEAR OLD HOMELAND SECURITY, FOR FAILING YET AGAIN TO SECURE ANYTHING BUT YOUR BLOATED PAYCHECKS!

[READ MORE ON THIS HERE:
 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/1/sensitive-army-database-us-dams-compromised-chines/#ixzz2cY9izl5c]

The United States’ Deteriorating Water Infrastructure

IT WAS FAILING QUICKLY IN 2009, YET NOTHING IS BEING DONE ABOUT IT.
http://growingblue.com/case-studies/the-major-challenge-of-a-deteriorating-infrastructure-in-the-united-states/

It is no secret that America’s water infrastructure is rapidly aging, with much of it considered at the end of its useful life. The country’s drinking water, wastewater systems and inland waterways received a failing grade – a D minus – on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. The Report Card found that 7 billion gallons of clean drinking water are lost each day because of leaking pipes.

THAT "REPORT CARD" CAN BE VIEWED HERE, BY CLICKING A CATEGORY, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO SCROLL TO THE RIGHT TO SEE ALL CATEGORIES:
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/home

SEEMS TO ME THAT THE "GRADES" ARE VERY HIGH...JUST GOING BY OUR LOCAL STATUS OF EACH CATEGORY, AND WHAT I HEAR FROM OTHERS AROUND THE COUNTRY.
WELL, PAINT A PRETTY PICTURE....EH?

In 2010 we had over 2200 "high-hazard" dams in the U.S., most with little to NO emergency contingency plans, which means people downstream from these behemoths can put their heads between their legs and kiss their behinds goodbye should there be a breach in those dams.

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#e/hh-dams-year

SINCE 1999 (ACTUALLY, SINCE THEY WERE BUILT, SOME AS FAR BACK AS THE 1930s!) THERE HAVE BEEN ALMOST NONE, THAT IS, LESS THAN 100, OF THESE THAT HAVE BEEN IN ANY WAY "REHABILITATED".
(SEE THE BLUE LINE ON THAT CHART)

TOTAL NATIONAL needs over the next 20 years to secure America's clean water needs?
A lousy $334.8 billion!
Why do I say "lousy"?
Well, because our Federal Reserve printed out over $5 TRILLION to help out FOREIGN banks in ONE year alone, back in 2008-2009!

If we can fund FOREIGN banks THAT much money, why not a third of a trillion for our own welfare, so we can depend on our water supply?

THAT'S LESS THAN $35 BILLION A YEAR.
WE SPEND THAT MUCH ON PET FOODS!
WE SPEND $61 BILLION EACH YEAR FOR PET FOOD!
WHY NOT SPEND THE MONEY TO INSURE WE HAVE WATER?

Because having clean, secure water sources does not put money in the bank for our CONGRESS, that's why! They won't do it, no way!

Instead, they're "EASING" EPA regulations so their good pals over on WALL STREET can POLLUTE MORE what little we DO have, take out the regulations that keep THAT wee bit safe!

Say, do YOU know how many "wastewater outfalls" are in YOUR state?
Do you know what that means?

It means sewage that is dumped right into our water, the final resting place for waste.

Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties in Southeast Florida discharge nearly 400 million gallons a day into the Atlantic Ocean -- sewage not fully treated for surface water discharging in that it includes high levels of nutrients and unfiltered parasites like Cryptosporidium and Giardia.

FIVE such sites were going full-tilt when this video was made in 2007.

(NOTE: I AM TRYING TO UPLOAD ALL VIDEOS TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG. YOU CAN CHECK BELOW TO SEE HOW THAT WORKS OUT.)

http://youtu.be/SHzaEGYLyEI

Sure, stop people from voting, spend MILLIONS to BILLIONS for that, and dump your sewers for FREE!

Way to go Florida! "Stinkholes", exactly right!
Florida is not by any means the only one, just one of the worst...

Milwaukee Dumps Raw Sewage İnto Drinking Water Source..This was in April, 2013.
http://youtu.be/IaNhEdnfH_o

New Yorkers, this is what you're getting!
http://youtu.be/SXklOE_nwu8

Sewer Overflow on the Allegheny River
http://youtu.be/d_1DeED7mIQ

Cincinnati Combined Sewer Overflow
http://youtu.be/52oSt6TvMNc

You near the Chesapeake Bay, you have plenty troubles there, even you in the Washington DC area!
May 30th, 2013
http://growingblue.com/case-studies/green-infrastructure-in-the-chesapeake-bay/
The Chesapeake Bay watershed includes six different states as well as the District of Columbia and is home to 17 million people. Within the watershed, a variety of land uses (ranging from forests to agriculture to urban areas) impacts the health of the region’s 140 major rivers and streams, lakes, and 11,684 miles of shoreline.

Currently, large volumes of polluted runoff flow untreated directly into local waters or overwhelm the capacity of storm sewers, resulting in sewage overflows in places with combined systems, and the Chesapeake Bay has become one of the most endangered ecosystems in the country. However, green infrastructure provides a cost-effective approach to manage this polluted runoff.

Well, MAYBE you get the point?
Drink up, America!
Go swimming, boating, skiing...go ahead...it's SAFE, right?

Liquid Assets Documentary Trailer
http://youtu.be/7Cul30R0z-A

If you can stand the ads that interrupt this documentary, take 48 minutes to watch this:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhfg78_cnbc-originals-liquid-assets_news

IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR OWN EYES, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER EVIDENCE THAT PROVES WE ARE AT RISK OF SUSTAINED WATER SHORTAGE ARE FACTUAL.
DENYING IT WON'T CHANGE FACTS!

"The impact on the health of the Colorado River is unsustainable."
Dwindling Colorado River Forces First-Ever Cuts in Lake Powell Water Releases

http://www.wunderground.com/news/drought-lake-powell-lake-mead-climate-change-20130818
 April 4th, 2011
More than a dozen years of drought have begun to extract a heavy toll from water supplies in the West, where a report released last week forecast dramatic cuts next year in releases between the two main reservoirs on the Colorado River, the primary source of water for tens of millions of people across seven western states.

After studying the problems facing the river for the past two years, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – the agency charged with managing water in the West – announced Friday that it would cut the amount of water released next year by Lake Powell in Arizona by 750,000 acre-feet, enough to supply about 1.5 million homes.

It marks the first reduction in water flows since the mid 1960s, when the lake was created by the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. "This is the worst 14-year drought period in the last hundred years," said Larry Wolkoviak, director of the bureau's Upper Colorado Region.
[Yeah, it marks the FIRST reduction, with MORE reductions forthcoming as the river runs dry! Good luck, western states!]

The move could trigger an "unprecedented water crisis within the next few years," the business coalition group Protect the Flows told USA Today, as reductions could have major ramifications for farmers and businesses downstream that depend on those flows, as well as on hydroelectric power generation.

At Lake Mead, water levels will lower by 8 feet as a result of the reduction, after the lake already has dropped by about 100 feet since the current drought began in 2000, the Wall Street Journal notes. That would bring water levels there – now about 1,105 feet – within striking range of 1,075 feet, considered the threshold for the U.S. Department of the Interior to declare a water shortage.

Drought, combined with overuse – some 70 percent of the river's capacity is siphoned away to water more than 3 million acres of farmland – already have produced some of the Colorado's lowest flows in more than 1,000 years, Udall told National Geographic.

"Something very, very unusual is going on," he added, noting that today's low water levels should be a "kick in the pants" to spur both short-term and long-term water planning for the region.

MAYBE SO, BUT WILL IT SPUR ANYTHING BUT CONTINUED DISREGARD FOR A FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM?
MY MONEY IS ON "NO, NOTHING WILL CHANGE".

AND BEFORE YOU CALL ME CYNICAL, LOOK AT THE PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE WE NEED TO GUARD OUR WATER RESOURCES, OR CLEAN UP THE WATERWAYS...HALF OF AMERICA, BEING REPUBLICANS, ARE ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISTS, i.e., "SCREW THE ENVIRONMENT! DRILL, DRILL, POLLUTE, CHOKE THE AIR, WATER, ALL OF IT WITH WHATEVER THE BIG CORPORATIONS WANT TO DISCHARGE INTO YJE AIR, WATER, AND SOIL.

THE OTHER HALF ARE SIMPLY BLISSFULLY UNDAUNTED BY LACK OF CONCERN.
SO, ABOUT 30% REALIZE WHAT'S HAPPENING, JUST A BIT LESS THAN 30%,

BUT ONLY 15% CARE ENOUGH TO BECOME "ACTIVISTS" AND DO SOMETHING TO MAKE IT RIGHT!

AND ABOUT 99.999% OF CONGRESS DON'T EVEN GIVE  A TINKER'S DAM EITHER WAY...JUST REELECT THEM.

LET 'EM DRINK SEWER WATER!

~BEGIN ORIGINAL BLOG HERE~

THEN THERE ARE THE INTENTIONAL ADDITIVES...LIKE THE TWO BIOCHEMICAL WEAPONS, TWO SUBSTANCES DECLARED ILLEGAL FOR USE IN WARFARE...FLUORIDE AND CHLORINE.

I HOPE THIS POST WILL INFORM YOU ALL (AMERICANS OR NOT) THAT OUR WATER SUPPLY, AND THE PIPES THAT DELIVER IT TO US, ARE TOXIC TO HUMAN LIFE, THANKS TO OVER A CENTURY OF POOR MANAGEMENT, INTENTIONAL CONTAMINATION BY BOTH KNOWN POISONS AND BIOCHEMICAL WASTES FROM MEGA-CORPORATIONS ALL ACROSS THIS LAND.

FLUORIDE, A KNOWN CHEMICAL WEAPON

Chemical Weapons and/or their Precursors
Fluoridated and Fluoride Pesticides    
http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/effects.chem.weapon.precurs.htm

Chemical Weapons Precursors for the production of sarin-family nerve agents

    x Ammonium bifluoride - Wood Preservative - CAS No. 1341-49-7
    x Potassium bifluoride - Wood Preservative - CAS No. 7789-29-9
    x Sodium bifluoride - Insecticide; Former EPA List 3 Inert - CAS No. 1333-83-1
    x Sodium fluoride - Insecticide, Wood Preservative - CAS No. 7681-49-4

Bifluorides are used as a source of the fluorine atom in the synthesis of all of the G-type nerve agents except Tabun, in which the fluorine atom is replaced by a cyanide group. 

All bifluorides are synthesized from ammonium bifluoride.
Ammonium bifluoride is in turn made from ammonium fluoride which is made by the reaction of ammonium hydroxide with hydrofluoric acid (HF.)

Ammonia is manufactured on an extremely large scale (>10 million tons per annum in the US) using the Haber process, for which Fritz Haber (who played a major role in the German chemical weapons program in World War I) won a Nobel Prize.

Worldwide hydrogen fluoride manufacture is approximately 400,000 tons.
The quantities needed for manufacture of a stockpile of G agent would be miniscule in comparison.

Ammonium fluoride is converted to the bifluoride by dehydrating an aqueous solution of ammonium fluoride. The other bifluorides are manufactured by essentially the same process, except that the water, and the more volatile ammonia, are driven off in the presence of a sodium or potassium compound.

THE U.N. WAS MONITORING IRAQ FOR PRODUCTION OF THE VERY SAME FLUORIDE THAT IS INTENTIONALLY PUT INTO OUR DRINKING WATER!

1995 UN Monitoring and Verification of Iraq's Compliance. The organofluorines on this list include (pesticides highlighted in red):

List A (Precursors):
Hydrogen fluoride (7664-39-3)
Potassium fluoride (7789-23-3)
Ammonium bifluoride (1341-49-7)
Sodium bifluoride (1333-83-1)
Sodium fluoride (7681-49-4)
Potassium bifluoride (7789-29-9)
Fluorine (7782-41-4)

-- February 19,1999
ALCOA Fined $750,000 by Commerce Department For Illegal Chemical Shipments.
[ALSO FROM http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/effects.chem.weapon.precurs.htm]

THE ILLEGAL CHEMICAL WAS FLUORIDE, BOTH POTASSIUM FLUORIDE AND SODIUM FLUORIDE, ILLEGAL BECAUSE THEY ARE USED TO MAKE CHEMICAL WEAPONS!!!

<<The Commerce Department's Under Secretary for Export Administration, William A. Reinsch, imposed a civil penalty of $750,000 on Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) for 100 violations of U.S. export regulations involving shipments of potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride.Potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride are controlled because they can be used to make chemical weapons.

These chemicals were added to the Department's control list in March 1991, but ALCOA's export compliance program failed to recognize and incorporate the change. There was no indication that in this case the chemicals were used for weapons purposes.>>

[WHILE ON THE SITE PLEASE MAKE YOURSELVES FAMILIAR WITH THE KNOWN CARCINOGEN, TEFLON! TEFLON CAN KILL YOU! 

YOU MAY ALSO READ MORE ABOUT THIS HERE: http://www.asanltr.com/ASANews-98/pfib.html
SEE: Teflon (PTFE: polytetrafluoroethylene) - US EPA Pesticide List 3 Inert - CAS No. 9002-84-0 AT http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/effects.chem.weapon.precurs.htm]

FLUORIDE AS A KNOWN NEUROTOXIN, A WEAPON OF WAR

THE FOLLOWING IS A FRIGHTENING READ ON THE U.S.'s SECRET PROJECTS AND STUDIES INVOLVING THE USE OF FLUORIDE AS A POTENTIAL WEAPON OF WAR...THE SAME FLUORIDE THAT IS IN 3/4ths OF AMERICA'S DRINKING WATER!

 IT SHOWED GREAT POTENTIAL AS A "NERVE AGENT", COMPARABLE TO THE SARIN GROUP OF TOXIC NERVE CHEMICALS.

THIS GOES BACK TO 1944!
THE GOVERNMENT KNEW FROM AT LEAST THAT TIME THAT FLUORIDE IS A KILLER!

Declassified documents of the U.S. atomic bomb program indicate FLUORIDE may not be as "SAFE" as URANIUM!

http://100777.com/node/197

<<A Manhattan Project memorandum of 29 April 1944 states: "Clinical evidence suggests that uranium hexa-fluoride may have a rather marked central nervous system effect... It seems most likely that the F [code for fluoride] component rather than the T [code for uranium] is the causative factor."

The memo, from a captain in the medical corps, is stamped SECRET and is addressed to Colonel Stafford Warren, head of the Manhattan Project's Medical Section. Colonel Warren is asked to approve a program of animal research on CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM effects.

 For research on fluoride's CNS effects to be approved at such a momentous time, the supporting evidence set forth in the proposal forwarded along with the memo must have been persuasive.
The proposal, however, is missing from the files at the US National Archives.

"If you find the memos but the document they refer to is missing, it's probably still classified, "said Charles Reeves, chief librarian at the Atlanta branch of the US National Archives and Records Administration where the memos were found.>>

I HAVE WRITTEN MUCH OVER THE YEARS ABOUT FLUORIDE AND POSTED THIS IN JANUARY, 2013: http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/01/fluoride-known-chemical-weapon.html

ONLY calcium fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral, while its synthetic counterpart, sodium fluoride (silicofluoride), is an industrial-grade hazardous waste material made during the production of fertilizer.

Its past history includes patented use as rat poison and insecticide. 

There are many blind- and double-blind studies that show sodium fluoride has a cumulative effect on the human body leading to allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, bone weakening, cancer, and neurological problems, while actually damaging tooth enamel .

SODIUM FLUORIDE IS A WASTE PRODUCT CREATED DURING THE PRODUCTION OF FERTILIZER!

According to the British Fluoridation Society, there are more people drinking artificially fluoridated water in the United States than all other countries combined.

Signs of chronic fluoride overdose [from the United States Pharmacopoeia, 1986]

    Constipation or
    Loss of appetite or
    Nausea or vomiting or
    Pain and aching of bones or
    Stiffness or
    Weight loss or
    White, brown, or black discoloration of teeth (fluorosis, osteosclerosis)

Precautions/Contraindications/Adverse Effects [Canadian Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties, 1989]

Should not be administered to infants and children using other fluoride-containing drugs, or to patients with frank dental fluorosis [emphasis mine]

    Ingestion of fluorides may cause eczema, atopic dermatitis and urticaria.
    Reports include skin rash, gastrointestinal upsets and headache. These usually disappear when administration is discontinued.

    Chronic toxicity of fluoride is manifest in mottling of the dental enamel (dental fluorosis) and may result in increased density of bone.

Jan. 7, 2010
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fluoride-recommendations-buck-decades-dental-health-practices/story?id=12564884&page=2#.UWCglje3OSo
Watch the video there, please.

Dr. Griffin Cole, a dentist in Austin, Texas, said "I still don't think it's enough, honestly. I don't think there should be fluoride in the water at all."

January 08, 2011
http://www.naturalnews.com/030952_CDC_fluoride.html

<<The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) today issued a startling report that admits 2 in 5 children in America show signs of fluoride poisoning (streaking, spotting or pitting of teeth due to dental fluorosis).
The agency concluded that fluoride levels need to be lowered in municipal water supplies, reducing fluoride to 0.7 milligrams per liter (the previous recommended upper limit was 1.2 milligrams per liter).

This ends over five decades of the U.S. government recommending up to 1.2 milligrams of fluoride in every liter of water.

  But even the new lower levels are still more than enough to cause serious harm to children, and when mothers make infant formula using fluoridated tap water, they inadvertently poison their infants with hundreds of times the level of fluoride that would normally be found in healthy human breast milk.

It is unknown how many children in America and around the world have been poisoned by infant formula made with fluoridated tap water, but that number continues to grow each day that water fluoridation continues.>>

THE FOLLOWING IS AN EYE-OPENING WEBSITE, ESPECIALLY THEIR FAQ PAGE.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/
http://www.fluoridealert.org/faq/

PLEASE READ THIS WARNING CAREFULLY!
Warnings [By the Editors of Consumer Guide Prescription Drugs, Beekman House, New York, 1988;

<<Poly-Vi-Flor {similar to Tri-Vi-Fluor} vitamin and fluoride supplement: This drug should be used cautiously by those with heart disease, kidney disease, bone disease, or thyroid disease.>>

December 2, 2009
OVER 200 CHEMICALS FOUND IN THE BLOOD OF NEWBORNS

A toxic cocktail of over 200 different chemicals is found today in the blood stream of newborns. Minority communities are often disproportionately affected by chemical exposure.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040915111128.htm

<<The Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, does not require most chemicals to be tested for safety before they are approved for widespread use. Because of this, Trasande said, less than half of the 3,000 high-production volume chemicals on the marketplace have toxicity data, and less than one-fifth have toxicity testing data on the effects on developing organs.>>

SO YOU SEE, THE GOVERNMENT KNEW ALL THESE YEARS....THEY KNEW WHAT FLUORIDE CAN DO, HOW IT CAN KILL, HOW IT AFFECTS HUMANS AND ANIMALS.

AFTER READING THE STUDIES, YOU DECIDE...BUT I HOPE YOUR CHILDREN ALSO GET A CHOICE!

IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT FLUORIDE CAN BE LINKED TO ADHD, TO AUTISM, TO MANY NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE.

IS IT WORTH IT TO RISK ALL THIS FOR SOMETHING THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF IS NOW TRYING TO REDUCE CONSUMPTION OF?

CHLORINE, ANOTHER BANNED WEAPON OF WAR

Chemical weapons in World War I

<<Chemical weapons in World War I were primarily used to demoralize, injure and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas and the severe mustard gas, to lethal agents like phosgene and chlorine.

The first killing agent employed by the German military was chlorine. Chlorine is a powerful irritant that can inflict damage to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. At high concentrations and prolonged exposure it can cause death by asphyxiation.

[SEE: Romano, James A.; Lukey, Brian J.; Salem, Harry (2007). Chemical warfare agents: chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, and therapeutics (2nd ed.). CRC Press. p. 5. ISBN 1-4200-4661-6.] >>

YES, CHLORINE CAN KILL AND AMERICAN LEGISLATORS AND AGENCIES ARE WELL AWARE OF THIS, SO WHY PUT IT IN OUR DRINKING WATER?

Relying on chlorine disinfection alone is a false guarantee that the water from your tap is safe to drink. 

Chlorine treatment does not absolutely ensure that by the time our drinking water comes out of our home faucet it is free of unhealthy microorganisms.

Dangerous bacteria (such as e-coli and coliform) are STILL found in chlorinated tap water on MANY occasions. 

When this happens it is primarily due to problems related to the treatment system itself or to the transport of the water to our homes.

Chlorine in Drinking Water
http://www.waterbenefitshealth.com/chlorine-in-drinking-water.html

<<The ugly side of drinking chlorinated water has only recently been documented.
And it has to do with the long-term health effects of chlorine and its disinfection by-products (DBPs).
What the studies have found is that chlorine itself is not the main problem; rather it has to do with what happens when the chlorine mixes with any type of organic matter in the water.
In the 1970s scientists discovered that when chlorine is added to water, it forms Trihalomethanes (THMs), one of which is chloroform. THMs increase the production of free radicals in the body and are highly carcinogenic (cancer causing).

[THEY "DISCOVERED" THAT AFTER THEY KNEW IT WAS USED TO KILL IN A WORLD WAR?
THEY "DISCOVERED" THIS OVER 40 YEARS AGO AND ARE STILL FEEDING IT TO ALL OF US? WHY? WHY?]

Chlorine and THMS have been linked to various types of cancer, kidney and liver damage, immune system dysfunction, disorders of the nervous system, hardening of the arteries, and birth defects.

“Cancer risk among people using chlorinated water is as much as 93 percent higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine,” according to the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality.

According to the BreastCancerFund.org,“One common factor among women with breast cancer is that they all have 50 to 60 percent higher levels of these chlorination by-products (THMs) in their fat tissue than women without breast cancer . . .”

"Long-term drinking of chlorinated water appears to increase a person's risk of developing bladder cancer as much as 80 percent,” as documented in a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Some 45,000 Americans are diagnosed every year with bladder cancer.

"The drinking of chlorinated water has finally been officially linked to an increased incidence of colon cancer. An epidemiologist at Oak Ridge Associated Universities completed a study of colon cancer victims and non-cancer patients and concluded that the drinking of chlorinated water for 15 years or more was conducive to a high rate of colon cancer," according to Health Freedom News, January/February 1987. >>

CAN YOU SEE THAT THOSE WHO "TREAT" OUR WATER KNOW THAT CHLORINE KILLS?

DOESN'T ADDING THINGS THAT WERE BANNED FOR USE IN WAR BY THE GENEVA CONVENTION SCREAM NOT TO USE IT IN DRINKING WATER?

WHY ARE WE BEING POISONED BY THIS?

BUT IT'S NOT JUST WHAT WE DRINK...
OUR SKIN IS THE LARGEST ORGAN IN OUR BODIES, AND SKIN ABSORBS THINGS IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH!

According to the Journal of Public Health, “Up to two-thirds of the harmful effects of chlorine are due to inhalation and skin absorption while showering.The inhalation of chlorine and other chemical vapors into our lungs means that these chemicals enter directly into our bloodstream.”

THE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISES AGAINST THIS, BUT WE STILL PUT IT INTO OUR "PURIFICATION" PROCESS?

DOESN'T "CHLORINE BLEACH" AND THE WARNING LABELS ON EACH BLEACH BOTTLE THAT SAYS NOT TO INGEST THIS TELL THEM ANYTHING?

Long-Term Effects of Chlorinated Water on the Skin
AUGUST 7, 2010
http://www.livestrong.com/article/196874-long-term-effects-of-chlorinated-water-on-the-skin/#ixzz2PjVlplVu

<<According to a report on HULIQ.com, an independent news organization, chlorine actually promotes the generation of free radicals within the body, and specifically the skin. Free radicals have been shown to cause cancer, as has chlorine. Drinking tap water most has been linked to bladder, breast and bowel cancer; and long-term effects of drinking, bathing and swimming in chlorinated water has been shown to cause malignant melanoma, otherwise known as skin cancer.

A GUIDE TO DRINKING WATER AND IT'S POLLUTANTS THAT WAS AVAILABLE ON A WEBSITE BUT IS NOW FOUND ONLY IN ARCHIVE:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090326133915/http://drinkingwatersafety.fitnessguide101.com/chlorinated-water-what-you-must-know/

WORTH A LOOK.

Take a few minutes to read the content of this website. Everyone should be aware about how much Chlorine harms our body cells and the environment … luckily, there are some solutions … http://www.chlorinekills.com/

<<“Chlorine is so dangerous, that it should be banned. Putting chlorine in the water is like starting a time bomb. Cancer, heart trouble, premature senility, both mental and physical are conditions attributable to chlorine, used in treated water supplies. It is making us grow old before our time by producing symptoms of aging such as hardening of the arteries. I believe if chlorine were now proposed for the first time to be used in drinking water it would be banned by the Food and Drug Administration."
- Biologist/chemist Dr. Herbert Schwartz>>

Here’s what just a few studies on chlorine have shown:

1~      Bladder cancer risks are doubled

2~      Cancer risk is 93% higher among those using chlorinated water

3~       Using swimming pools increases risks of bladder cancer 57%

4~       Those taking long hot showers/baths also had higher risks than just drinking

5~       At least 2 cancer-causing chemicals evaporate into the air when we shower and are likely to be inhaled

6~       Chloroform (a known carcinogen) increases 100 times during a 10-minute shower

7~      ALMOST ALL Americans drink contaminated water

8~       By 2015, more people will die from water and food related cancers than from lung cancer

9~      Exposure to chlorine can be through inhalation and skin, not only ingestion

10~     Heart attacks and strokes are caused by chlorine in the drinking water

ARE YOU BEGINNING TO SEE THE SCALE OF THIS THING? WE ARE BEING SLOWLY POISONED! THE PEOPLE WHO ADD THESE CHEMICALS TO OUR WATER KNOW THEY ARE TOXIC!

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." - American Indian Proverb.

BUT WE ARE DOING JUST THAT EVERY DAY. THE NUMBER OF UNPOLLUTED WATER RESOURCES IS DWINDLING FASTER THAN WE CAN STOP IT BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENTS CARE MORE ABOUT THE MEGA-CORPORATIONS' PROFITS AND THEIR HAPPINESS THAN THEY CARE ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THEIR CITIZENS!

OTHER WAYS OUR WATER IS POLLUTED

Albuquerque, Fresno, and San Francisco are examples of cities that have water that is sufficiently contaminated so as to pose serious potential health risks to pregnant women, infants, children, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems, according to Dr. David Ozonoff [http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/uscities/execsum.asp].

What we find in these waters are contaminants that occur with surprising regularity, regardless of location, such as chlorination by-products, lead, and coliform bacteria.

Other contaminants, such as Teflon and rocket fuel occur less frequently but pose major health concerns. If we include the fact that fluoride is actually poisonous we have water that is slowly killing some Americans and depressing the health of almost everyone who drinks and showers in it.

Water pollution by drugs is an emerging issue that is extremely important. Pharmaceuticals are now attracting attention as a whole new class of water pollutants.
At the recent American Chemical Society conference, Chris Metcalfe of Trent University in Ontario reported finding a vast array of drugs leaving Canadian sewage treatment plants. Padma Venkatraman, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins concluded that antidepressants, anticonvulsants, anticancer drugs and antimicrobials are among the pharmaceuticals most likely to be found at "toxicologically significant levels" in the environment.

These drugs and many more are finding their way into public water systems because pharmaceutical industries, hospitals and other medical facilities as well as households dispose of unused medicines and even human excreta can contain incompletely metabolized medicines.

Millions of doses of prescription drugs that Americans swallow annually to combat cancer, pain, depression and other ailments do not disappear harmlessly into their digestive systems but instead make their way back into the environment where they may contaminate drinking water and pose a threat to life, according to researchers at John Hopkins medical center.>>

http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/uscities/execsum.asp

Two factors pose imminent threats to drinking water quality in America:

NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
    First, we are relying on pipes that are, on average, a century old. The water systems in many cities -- including Atlanta, Boston, and Washington, D.C. -- were built toward the end of the 19th century. Not only is our water supply infrastructure breaking down at alarming rates (the nation suffered more than 200,000 water main ruptures in 2002), but old pipes can leach contaminants and breed bacteria in drinking water.

    Second, regulatory and other actions by the Bush administration threaten the purity of American tap water. These actions include: weakening legislative protections for source waters, stalling on issuing new standards for contaminants, delaying the strengthening of existing standards, and cutting and even eliminating budgets for protective programs.

NRDC observed that while tap water can contain a vast array of contaminants, a handful of particularly harmful contaminants surfaced repeatedly in our study. They include:

    1~ lead, which enters drinking water supplies from the corrosion of pipes or faucets and can cause permanent brain damage and decreased intelligence in infants and children.

    2~ pathogens (germs) such as coliform bacteria or Cryptosporidium, a microscopic disease-carrying protozoan that presents health concerns, especially to individuals with weakened immune systems including HIV/AIDS patients, the elderly, children, and people who have undergone organ transplants or cancer chemotherapy or who have certain chronic diseases.

    3~ by-products of the chlorination process such as trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, which may cause cancer and, potentially, reproductive problems and miscarriage.

    4~ several other carcinogens and other toxic chemicals, including arsenic (which is naturally occurring or derives from mining and industrial processes), radioactive radon, the pesticide atrazine (affecting the water of more than 1 million Americans), and perchlorate from rocket fuel (present in the water supplies of more than 20 million Americans).

In recent years, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., issued boil-water alerts as a result of problems including spikes in turbidity (cloudiness, which may indicate the presence of disease-causing pathogens) or other potential microbial problems.

And in Washington, D.C., levels of cancer-causing trihalomethanes -- which potentially cause cancer, birth defects, and miscarriages -- peaked at more than double the EPA standard.

Citizens have a right to know whether their drinking water is safe, as mandated in the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act.
This law required water suppliers to notify the public of dangers in tap water and inform people about the overall health of their watershed. Instead, in many cases, right-to-know reports have become propaganda for water suppliers, and the enormous promise of right-to-know reports has not been achieved.

The quality of the right-to-know reports reviewed in NRDC's study varied: some were successful tools for consumer education; some appeared to be less than direct, including Newark's, Fresno's, and Phoenix's, which buried, obscured, and even omitted findings about health effects of contaminants in city water supplies, printed misleading statements, and violated a number of right-to-know requirements.

 Problems NRDC observed in right-to-know reports included:

    1~ false, unqualified, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims
        For example, the cover pages of the 1999, 2000, and 2001 Washington, D.C., right-to- know reports included prominent and unqualified statements of safety: "Your Drinking Water Is Safe!" -- even though the city had levels of chlorination byproducts, lead, bacteria, and other pollutants measuring above health goals, and even though the city water supply suffered an unexplained spike in cyanide that was the highest recorded in this study.

    2~ errors and violations of EPA right-to-know requirements
        EPA rules require the reports to reveal known sources of pollutants in city water, such as factories or Superfund sites. None of the 19 cities surveyed named specific polluters in the right-to-know reports.

    3~ incorrect, misleading, or buried information or data
        For example, Newark's report buried the health warning and detailed information on the city's failure to meet EPA's action level for lead, which poses risks, especially to infants and young children.

    4~ failure to include information on health effects
        Nearly all cities surveyed failed to provide information on the health effects of some contaminants found at levels below EPA standards but above EPA health goals.

    5~ failure to translate reports into other languages spoken in communities
        Fewer than half the cities surveyed offered any kind of translation of right-to-know reports

Source water -- the bodies of water from which a city draws its drinking water -- varies in origin. Most cities get their water primarily from above-ground supplies, such as lakes and rivers; a few cities like Albuquerque and Fresno get their water primarily from groundwater -- that is, underground aquifers tapped by city wells. Source waters are most frequently contaminated by:

    ~municipal sewage
    ~polluted runoff from storm water or snow melt in urban and suburban areas
    ~pesticides and fertilizers from agricultural fields
    ~animal waste from feedlots and farms
    ~industrial pollution from factories
    ~mining waste
    ~hazardous waste sites
    ~spills and leaks of petroleum products and industrial chemicals
    ~"natural" contamination such as arsenic or radon that occurs in water as a result of leaching or release of the contaminant from rock

There seemed to be a targeted assault on the nation's water protection laws waged by the Bush administration, and our tap water quality will be worse for it UNLESS OBAMA REVERSES EVERYTHING BUSH2'S REGIME DID TO MAKE OUR ECOSYSTEM TOXIC TO HUMAN LIFE.

The INTENTIONAL things the Bush administration implemented is STILL endangering the health of our nation's tap water by its rescinding some past legislations such as:

    1~ rolling back existing water protection laws, including
        dismantling the Clean Water Act by proposing to slash protections for headwater streams and wetlands, cutting programs for polluted waters, and weakening restrictions on livestock waste.
     2~  lifting the ban on mountaintop removal mining.
     3~  relaxing sewage treatment requirements after rain and snow.
     4~   exempting polluting industry from paying for Superfund cleanup
    undermining drinking water standards.
     5~   halting mandated progress on new standards, such as those for Cryptosporidium, total trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, radon, perchlorate, groundwater pathogens, as well as standards to control threats to distribution systems.
     6~   failing, as previously mandated, to strengthen existing standards for bacteria, lead, chromium, atrazine, triazines, certain pesticides, fluoride, and other chemicals where improved public health protection is feasible.
     7~ slashing funding for water quality protection programs, including
        the Clean Water Act State Revolving Fund, cut by $500 million (36 percent)
        the Safe Drinking Water Act Revolving Fund, which received $150 million less than Congress authorized and does not meet current needs.
     8~ eliminating  water pollution projects, reduced from $459 million to $98 million
     9~  canceling the Superfund "polluter pays" program, causing serious budget shortfalls, slowing or stopping cleanups, and requiring $1.1 billion to be paid by taxpayers that would otherwise have been paid by polluters.
    10~  reducing the Land and Water Conservation Fund, reducing federal land acquisition by more than 50 percent.

IT TRULY WAS AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON AMERICAN CITIZENS BY WAY OF BOWING TO MEGA-CORPORATIONS WHO HAVE LONG BEEN KNOWN TO WILLFULLY AND KNOWINGLY POLLUTE OUR ENTIRE WATER SUPPLY FOR OVER A CENTURY!

IT WAS A WINK AND A NOD TO THOSE WALL STREET COMPANIES WHO MAKE MORE MONEY BY CONTAMINATING EVERY DROP OF WATER WE DRINK OR BATHE OR COOK IN THAN BY FIXING THE PROBLEMS!

IT WAS CRIMINAL!

THERE HAS BEEN A WAR RAGING FOR OVER A CENTURY ON ALL OF US WHO NEED WATER TO LIVE.

WE CAN FIGHT BACK, OR WE CAN SIMPLY LIE DOWN AND TAKE IT.

WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF FRESH, CLEAN, UNPOLLUTED WATER.
EVEN ONCE-CLEAN WATERS ARE BEING INUNDATED FROM ABOVE BY CHEMICALS AND FUELS JETTISONED INTO OUR AIR, CROP SPRAYS, SPRAYS TO KILL WEEDS AND OTHER UNWANTED PLANTS, POISONS THAT FALL ON THE MOST PRISTINE WATERS!

I SINCERELY HOPE THIS INFORMATION HAS GIVEN YOU THE IMPETUS TO SPEAK OUT, TO DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENTS, FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL, DO ALL THEY CAN TO REVERSE THIS SLOW-KILL POISONING OF THE WATER OF LIFE THAT WE ALL NEED. ONCE THEY KNOW WE REALIZE THE DANGERS, PERHAPS THEY WILL SEE THAT THEY CANNOT KEEP POISONING US ALL.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING VIDEO. IT IS LENGTHY, BUT IT IS A TRUE WONDER AND AN EYE-OPENER YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU WATCHED.
"BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS"

                                                             http://youtu.be/B1a3tjqQiBI

OTHER SOURCES FOR THIS POST:
~ National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Arsenic in Drinking Water: 2001 Update (NAS, 2001).
~ "1,061 Suspected E. coli Cases in New York Outbreak," Infectious Disease News, October 1999, available online at www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/199910/frameset.asp?article=ecoli.asp; CDC, "Public Health Dispatch: Outbreak of Escherichiacoli O157:H7 and Campylobacter Among Attendees of the Washington County Fair, New York," 1999. MMWR, 1999; 48(36)803
~ 2000 Drinking Water Quality Report, Washington, D.C., Water and Sewer Authority (WASA), available online at www.WASA.com.
~ Congressional Budget Office, "Future Investment in Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure," May 2002, available online at www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3472&sequence=0&from=1.
~ Brian Cohen and Erik Olson, Victorian Water Treatment Enters the 21st Century, Natural Resources Defense Council, 1995.
~ Emerging Contaminants In the Environment, http://toxics.usgs.gov/regional/emc/index.html
~ "National Reconnaissance of Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in Streams" Named as One of the Top 100 Science Stories of the Year, http://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/DM_top100.html
~ Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000:  A National Reconnaissance, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es011055j
~ Bollyn, Christopher. The Unhealthy Consequences of Chloraminated Water.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/chloraminated_water.html
~http://www.watertechonline.com/News.asp?mode=4&N_ID=50190

~ US House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform
Hearing on the District of Columbia's Lead Contamination Experience
Statement of Paul D. Schwartz, National Policy Coordinator, Clean Water Action
May 21, 2004. (http://www.dcwatch.com/wasa/040521i.htm)

~ The weed killer atrazine affects the levels of a number of hormones needed for normal development and function of the reproductive system, including estrogen, prolactin, luteinizing hormone, and follicle stimulating hormone. Atrazine has been linked to sexual malformations in frogs that were exposed to water containing just 1/30th as much atrazine as the EPA regards as safe in human drinking water. Sanders, Robert. Popular weed killer atrazine feminizes native frogs across Midwest, could be impacting amphibian populations worldwide 30 October 2002. University of Berkely. (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/10/30_frogs.html)

~ Nitrate in drinking water is also associated with increased risk for bladder cancer, according to a University of Iowa (UI) study that looked at cancer incidence among nearly 22,000 Iowa women. The study results suggest that even low-level exposure to nitrates over many years could cause increases in certain types of cancer, said Peter Weyer, Ph.D., associate director of the UI Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC) and one of the study's lead authors. The study was published in the May 2001 issue of the journal Epidemiology. "From a public health perspective, source water protection is a main concern. Sources of nitrate which can impact water supplies include fertilizers, human waste, and animal waste," Weyer said. "All of us, rural and urban residents alike, need to be more aware of how what we do as individuals can impact our water sources and, potentially, our health." (http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/ndwc/articles/OT/FA03/News_Notes.html)

~ The National Academy of Sciences has concluded that arsenic is so dangerous in drinking water that stringent levels set by the Clinton administration and later suspended by the Bush White House were not strict enough. For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency set an acceptable arsenic level of 50 parts per billion in drinking water. But recent studies suggested that this level was too high and increased the risk of bladder and lung cancer.
New York Times September 11, 2001

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