{"id":1039,"date":"2019-01-15T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:22:10","slug":"why-are-the-residents-of-this-nation-afraid-to-drink-tap-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/why-are-the-residents-of-this-nation-afraid-to-drink-tap-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are The Residents Of This Nation Afraid To Drink Tap Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>We all need water to live,<\/strong> and with a growing population, we need a lot of it. Beyond its health benefits, your body simply can&#8217;t function without it. But what if your tap water tastes off? Would you still drink it, especially if it might make you sick? More than half of Americans wouldn&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: Take Peggy Schwartz, 56, from Phoenix. She told Lucy Schouten from the Christian Science Monitor, <strong>\u201cI use, for drinking, all bottled water and have forever.\u201d<\/strong> Ms. Schwartz added, \u201cBut I have never had anything tested, I don\u2019t know statistically if it\u2019s good, bad or what.\u201d This shift happened after her tap water suddenly tasted wrong one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Americans don&#8217;t trust their tap water<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: After the Flint water crisis grabbed headlines worldwide, NSF International, a public health and safety group, did a survey. It found that while <strong>71% of Americans drink tap water,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: More than half (55%) of us worry about contaminants in our drinking water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: All cities are supposed to give you <<span style=\"font-weight: water quality<\/span> reports. But after Boston, few cities have actually mapped where their lead pipes are. Before 1950, we used lead pipes to bring water from treatment plants to homes and businesses. Now, most pipes are copper, but cities often don&#8217;t know which old lead ones got replaced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: Recently, Andrew Flett quit his job as an assistant operator at the Garden Hill First Nation water treatment plant to become a cargo driver. He told CBC News exclusively that he was confident the water was safe and drinkable when it left the plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It was severe with my daughter and my wife because when they would eat they couldn&#8217;t keep anything down. So I started boiling the water from our tap. They seemed fine after that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: This experience made his family, and hundreds of others like them, remove their home plumbing. Now, his pipes don't connect to the treatment plant. Instead, they draw water from storage tanks, which trucks refill with water from the plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;There&#8217;s like a film that settles at the bottom of every tank. It&#8217;s full of bacteria and you can get sick. It causes diarrhea, eating problems and all that,&#8221; Flett added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Water quality often worse for lower-income families<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: It seems water quality, like many public services, isn't the same for everyone. A poll by AP\/GfK showed Americans know this. In households earning over $100,000 annually, 6 out of 10 people trusted their tap water. But for households making less than $50,000, that number dropped to 4 out of 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: Judging if water tastes good is tricky. Even Boston, a city with some of the oldest pipes in the country, won the 2014 \"Tastiest Tap Water\" title from the American Water Works Association. Many cities like Boston use corrosion control chemicals to <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/\">purify the water<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: flowing through lead pipes. Flint, however, skipped this crucial step for three years. Over time, lead mixes with the water, poisoning those who drink it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Schools aren&#8217;t checking their water<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: While the country reeled from the horror of poisoned lead water in Flint, even scarier news came out from NBC earlier this month. A report from the Government Accountability Office found that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">41 percent of the country\u2019s schools hadn\u2019t tested for lead in their water<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and 37 percent found high lead levels in their school drinking water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: Even small amounts of lead in water are dangerous. It causes irreversible nerve damage and permanent brain damage in babies and children. Adults can face high blood pressure and other issues from drinking it. The Food and Drug Administration doesn't even allow more than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 parts per billion for <\/span><\/i><strong><<i>bottled water<\/i><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: With so much happening, authorities really need to look at water supply safety standards in every city to prevent another Flint crisis. Will citizens ever truly trust their tap water again?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related reading: <Are The Residents Of This Nation Afraid To Drink Tap Water?, <Crisis Everywhere, Not A Drop To Drink - World Water Day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/water-is-essential-for-seniors-heres-how-to-get-them-to-drink-more\/\">Water is Essential for Seniors- Here&#8217;s How to Get Them to Drink More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water is an essential need of the human body and is required in huge amounts for the growing population in the world. Health benefits of water aside, without it, the body begins to shut down its functions. #AMPACUSA Reverse Osmosis, Seawater Desalination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,66,29],"tags":[135,136,67,70],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-reverse-osmosis","category-industrial-reverse-osmosis","category-water-treatment","tag-alkaline-water-machine","tag-alkaline-water-purifier","tag-ampac-usa-commercial-ro","tag-industrial-ro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/88200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}