In an extensive analysis of official EPA violation and enforcement records, NRDC mapped lead-related issues in drinking water systems across the United States. Our research illustrates the extraordinary geographic scope of America’s lead crisis. In 2015, 18 million people were served by water systems with lead violations
NRDC:
What’s in Your Water? Flint and Beyond (article)
NRDC:
What’s in Your Water? Flint and Beyond (study)
If you are drinking tap water, it’s likely that it contains chlorine or chloramines, fluoride, lead and other heavy metals, perhaps radiation, and unknown contaminants of various sorts.
Your best protection is to get a water filter that removes a broad spectrum of known pollutants and unknown contaminants.
The water filter I use in my own home is made by Pure Effect. It’s state of the art filtration removes just about everything that might be in your water that you don’t want to put in your body.
Learn more about Pure Effect water filters here…
