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Caution:
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Drinking
water
May
Be
Hazardous
To Your·Health
1
b)'
Dexter Faulkner and Robert Ginskey
As
if
life were not already haiardous
enough, tbere is aow one more environ–
mental crisis witb wbicb we
will
bave to
contend: Drinlting water may cause can-
cer.
'
Last November, tbe Environmental
Defense Fund repotted that studies of
Mississippi water supplies bad indicated
a possible link between certain cancers
and oonsumption ofmunicipaUy treated
Mississippi R.iver water. Specifically, the
report asserted tbat !be cancer mortality
rate was
15
percent bigher among wbite
males wb.o drank water obtaifted from
tbe Mississippi Iban among !hose wbo
obtained tbeir water from (presumably ·
purer) wells.
At the same time, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) conJirrned tbat
a whole host of potentially carcinogenic
(cancer causing) organic chemicals had
been found in certain municipal water
supplies. Tbe EPA stated tbat 66 such
cbemical compo'!nds bad been identi·
fied in !be New Orleans water supply,
wbich is oblained from !be Mississippi
River. As a result, !be EPAembarked on
a mucb more extensive study of chem–
·¡caJ
contaminants·ín the drinking water
ofU.S.<:ities.
Since then
a
worrisome,
if
not fright·
ening, picturc of U.S. public water sup–
plies has emerged. The EPA has now
annou.nced that
al/
of the major U.S.
drinking water systems recently studied
by the agcocy contain measunble
amounts of carcinogenic a.nd pote..ntially
carcinogenic chemicals.
EPA administrator Russel Train
ex–
pressed deep ooncem over the finding$
and stated, "Our basic oonclusion from
tbe survey . .. is "that !be problem of or -
Teaching
.
.YourChildren
(Contlnued from page 9)
Parents need to appreciate each child
(espedally teen·agers) as
a
unique and
meanlngful individual, both In the family
unlt and in the community and world.
Help the child cultlvate this
po~itive
self-
image.
·
IV.
Experlence ol Declsion Malcing
Good decisions are sometimes the re–
sult of experlenclng making
batf
deci·
sions, which means that you must allow
your children to make som.e early deci–
sions, on thelr own. about their
uves.
Preschool-age chlldren should be
allowed to decide between· two or three
alternalives. For example, you may ask
them. "Do you want lo palnt, to play out·
s ide, orto do something else?"
Sllghtly older children can be given
cnores
around
me house.
but anow them
to decide tor themselves when (during
a
stated llmH) lhey will do the chores. Make
them responsible lor plannlng thelr own
time and dlsclpllnlng themselves. al-
ganic cbemicals in public water supply
systems exists throughout the country."
The Nation's Drinking Problem
The difficulty that now faces public
healtb oflicials is what to do about it.
Most of !be carcinogenic substances -
including cb.loroforrn and carbon tet·
rachloride - are ttaceable to reactions
witb chlorine, !be chemical used to "pu·
rify" most oftbe
240,000
public drinking
water systerns in the U.S. and protect us
from water-borne bacteria! infections
soch
as
typhoid and cbolera.
Chlorine itself is not suspected of
beiog carcinogenic. However, in com–
binations with other cbemicals tbat bave
found tbeir way into the nation's rivers
and ground water networks, chlorine
be–
comes significan!. Ozone.and activated
charcoal have been suggested as pos·
sible sul!stitutes for chlorine, but a mas–
sive switch to sucb alternatives would be
a gigantic uodertaking.
Anotber problem
is
that no one knows
what the "thresbold ooncentration" is
for the various carcinogens being found
in our drinlcing water or if sulHhresbold
usafc.. levels eveo ex.ist.
Two of !be cbemicals now found in
U.S. water systems- dieldrin'and vinyl
chloride - are higb.ly carcinogenic. But
safe upper limits for such loxic com·
pounds are often frustrating)y diflicult to
define, especially when political and
eoonomic oonsiderations are at stake.
Americans have long complained
. about the quality of !be drinking water
in ottter countries. FoUt wisdom had it
that !be best insurance against intestinal
distre~
while visiting foreign nations
was ..don't
drink
the water."
The irony
is
that the once-pristine
drinking water of tire United States may
now have become a major contributor to •
more serious diseases tban bacteria! in·
fections, namely
a
virtual
plague of cancer.
That tall, cool refresbing
glass
of
water we have all taken for granted may
need a waming label tagged on
it -
"Caution, this water may
be
ha:urdous
to your health.'.'
O
though they should
be
lirmly held lo gel·
tlng the job done.
Children should have thelr own regular
atlowance or in.come which
they
are free
to sperid as they wlsh. even though the
amount may have to
be
small. They can
also be put on a ctothing budget and
allowed lo choose
part
or all of thelr
clothes, probably with parental approval
ol each selectlon at first.
In high school they should
be
able to
choose thelr own classes and actlvitles
and dlrect most of their own free time.
"Protecting" a child by not allowlng
him social experiences or by maklng the
declsions
for
him because lt ls !aster and
easler deprives him of the experlences he
needs In order to learn to make good
declsions.
Our job as parents is to provlde our
children with the background and skills
so that
thsy
can make goOd decisions.
Then the
all-important
decislons of eany
adulthood wlll more llkely
be
wise deci·
slons. ones which your grandchildren wlll
be
plo~Hd
lo llve
wlthl
O
Clilford C.
Marcus~n,
formerly a Pl4in
Truth e<>ntributing ediú>r,
n<>w
t.eaci~~JB
ekruntary school chi/.clrtn
in
the
Al·
hambra,.California school district.
WEEK
ENDINO OCT<>BER t8, t975