Tag Archives: drinking water

By Michael Hawthorne, Tribune reporter Chicago’s first round of testing for a toxic metal called hexavalent chromium found that levels in local drinking water are more than 11 times higher than a health standard California adopted last month. But it could take years before anything is done about chromium contamination …

Hydrofluorosilicic Acid is deadly, and it’s an ingredient in most U.S. fluoridated water municipalities. Fluoride spill at water facility literally burns holes in parking lot cement Ethan A. Huff Natural News (NaturalNews) A recent chemical spill at a water treatment facility in Rock Island, Ill., required the assistance of an …

The village of Downers Grove purchases Lake Michigan water that is supplied by the city of Chicago via the DuPage Water Commission. Recently, some questions have been raised regarding the quality of Chicago water. Specifically, testing of Chicago tap water by an independent agency indicated the presence of chromium 6, …