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Drinking Water

Expert Testimony and Communications Content

Pharmaceuticals Pollute U.S. Tap Water

The Associated Press found drugs and other medical compounds in the drinking water supplies of 41 million Americans. EWG's Tap Water Database details other contaminants.
» Read more... | Published March 10, 2008

Statement of Dusty Horwitt, JD

Senior Analyst for Public Lands, Environmental Working Group
» Read more... | Published December 15, 2008

EPA Needs to Set Enforceable Standards for Currently Unregulated Drinking Water Pollutants

Statement of Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., Senior Scientist
Environmental Working Group
» Read more... | Published August 12, 2008

EWG calls for Investigation of Nursery Water

Potential False Advertising and Misleading Health Claims on Fluoride in Bottled Water That Is Marketed to Infants
» Read more... | Published February 1, 2008

EWG Letter to Harvard President Bok

EWG letter to Harvard President regarding its investigation into charges that Dr. Chester Douglass of the Harvard Medical School faculty misrepresented or suppressed the findings of federally funded research into whether fluoride in tap water is associated with bone cancer in adolescent boys.
» Read more... | Published October 10, 2006

Government Asked to Evaluate the Cancer-Causing Potential Of Fluoride in Tap Water

Citing a strong body of peer-reviewed evidence, EWG today asked the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water in its authoritative Report on Carcinogens, based on its ability to cause a rare form of childhood bone cancer, osteosarcoma, in boys.
» Read more... | Published June 5, 2005

EWG to Rep. Bass: Where Is Your Plan For MTBE Relief?

When Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH) voted in favor of lawsuit immunity for drinking water polluters
» Read more... | Published April 27, 2005
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