WV Residents On Their Tapwater: "We Do Not Drink It. Our Pets Do Not Drink It"

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Now, more than a month later, the tell-tale liquorice scent of MCHM still hangs over the storage tank farm on the Elk River that was the source of the contamination. The hot water carries a faint chemical smell in small communities to the north-west and north-east of Charleston. There are still traces in some homes of the white residue that settled on dishes in the early days, after officials told the public it was safe to use the water.

Many of those who do bathe in tap water rinse off afterwards with bottled water, in order to avoid skin irritations and rashes. “We do not drink it. My pets do not drink it. We don’t cook with it. I still cook with bottled water. I put bleach in every load of dishes,” said Susan Jackson, who lives with her two sons in Clendenin, about 25 miles north-east of the Freedom Industries site.

The skin on her arms and legs, though faintly scarred in rough and red spots from exposure to tap water, is healing, she said. “It was an extreme rash all over my body,” she said. “It was almost like my skin was coming off … since I have been rinsing with bottled water it’s getting better now, but it’s very itchy. It burns.” Drinking the water was even worse. On 23 January, after the all clear, Jackson said she suffered severe stomach pain after taking her first drink of tap water. It was so bad she went to the hospital with fears of appendicitis, Jackson said.

Those symptoms of stomach pain, violent and uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhoea as well as skin and eye irritations were consistent with those reported by the nearly 700 West Virginians who turned to the state poison control centre and emergency rooms in the aftermath of the spill.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/14/west-virginia-after-the-spill-residents-still-feeling-chemical-leaks-effects

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1. no worries. I imagine the 1% are increasing their ownership of bottled

water companies and stock. Surely you will understand their need to ask for a steep price for a bottle of drinking water under these circumstances.

[Squinch]

2. Exactly. It's a little laboratory so they can see how to do it in the rest of the states.

Frickin' Pinky and the Brain have finally found the foolproof way to take over the world.