> Drinking water containing dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals has been pumped into the homes of more than 1,000 people, the Guardian can reveal.
> Cambridge Water has admitted it removed a supply containing four times the legal limit of perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS) from the homes of customers in south Cambridgeshire in June last year. But the 1,080 customers living in Stapleford and Great Shelford were never informed that they had been exposed. The company has not revealed for how long the water had been tainted.
This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Cambridgeshire is riddled with current and former American and British air bases. These chemicals were used liberally as at the time they weren’t considered harmful. I used to live near to the American airbase at RAF Alconbury. As a kid they had summer open days and would let us play with the fire trucks they had there including spraying down the carpark with fire suppressant foam. It was great fun at the time but in hindsight it probably wasn’t such a good thing given what we now know about these chemicals.
Well, good thing I’ve been drinking bottled water then….
Bullet dodged…
Be prepared for these types of stores more frequently over the next few years.
Water companies make profit while increasing prices for customers, don’t prevent their old infrastructure leaking and leaching pollutants into the waterways. How surprising. Energy companies rake in massive profits, don’t maintain the old infrastructure leading to weeks of power cuts. How surprising.
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> Drinking water containing dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals has been pumped into the homes of more than 1,000 people, the Guardian can reveal.
> Cambridge Water has admitted it removed a supply containing four times the legal limit of perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS) from the homes of customers in south Cambridgeshire in June last year. But the 1,080 customers living in Stapleford and Great Shelford were never informed that they had been exposed. The company has not revealed for how long the water had been tainted.
This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Cambridgeshire is riddled with current and former American and British air bases. These chemicals were used liberally as at the time they weren’t considered harmful. I used to live near to the American airbase at RAF Alconbury. As a kid they had summer open days and would let us play with the fire trucks they had there including spraying down the carpark with fire suppressant foam. It was great fun at the time but in hindsight it probably wasn’t such a good thing given what we now know about these chemicals.
Well, good thing I’ve been drinking bottled water then….
Bullet dodged…
Be prepared for these types of stores more frequently over the next few years.
Water companies make profit while increasing prices for customers, don’t prevent their old infrastructure leaking and leaching pollutants into the waterways. How surprising. Energy companies rake in massive profits, don’t maintain the old infrastructure leading to weeks of power cuts. How surprising.