"arizona cowboy" <cacheoverflowATyahoo.com> wrote:

>> Do you know what the allowable level of arsenic in water is? Did you
>> know
> that
>> arsenic occurs naturally in water??
>
> so does mercury and lead, but I don't want them in my children's water
> either
>
> are you retarded from lead in your water, and that makes you make such
> stupid statements?

Perhaps, if you knew the facts, you wouldn't have had the response you did
in the first place. When Clinton left office, he signed an executive order
to have the levels of arsenic lowered to 20% of the then current level
within 6 years. This order was based on no scientific data and had no
direct support from any scientific body, but it *did* create a major
financial cost if it were to be implemented. When Bush came into office, on
of the things his administration did was to validate this EO from the
Clinton administration. With real scientific data, the Bush administration
found that the current levels were perfectly safe. So, Bush countered
Clinton's executive order and declared the current levels (which gives the
only factual tidbit to your statement, since the current leves are 5 times
what Clinton's EO *intended* to achieve, at great costs and with little
benefit) to be safe. He then effectively tossed out Clinton's
scientifically unsupported ordered that would have done little more than
cause the Bush administration to spend alot of money for no improvement.

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