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Water
Many Americans’ drinking water contains contaminants, and bottled water makers don’t fully disclose the source or purity of their water. EWG is the place to go for information about your water.
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View and Download the report here: Into the Mouths of Babes
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Atrazine, the most heavily used herbicide in the United States, is a cancer-causing weed killer applied to 50 million acres of corn each year. After it is applied each spring, it runs off cornfields and through drinking water plants into the tap water of millions of Midwestern homes.
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View and Download the report here: Full Disclosure
Read MorePollutants in rivers and other source waters throughout Ohio are contaminating drinking water statewide, a citizen monitoring project has found.
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Read MoreView and Download the report here: Dishonorable Discharge
Read MoreMore than 45 million Americans in thousands of communities were served drinking water during 1994-1995 that was polluted with fecal matter, parasites, disease causing microbes, radiation, pesticides, toxic chemicals, and lead at levels that violat
Read MoreAn Environmental Working Group review of nearly 200,000 water sampling records found that over two million people -- including approximately 15,000 infants under the age of four months -- drank water from 2,016 water systems that were reported to EPA for violating the nitrate standard at least once between 1986 and 1995.
Read MoreEWG's response to a pesticide industry-funded 'critique' of their report Tap Water Blues, which documented public health risks from drinking water contaminated with herbicides.
Read MoreIn 1993-94 over 53 million Americans drank water that did not meet Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) health or biological treatment standards or guidelines.
Read MoreWetlands, and federal efforts to protect them, have become the source of considerable controversy in recent years.
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