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# Lead. PFOA. Atrazine - Newsletter 092216 from EWG
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/lead_pfoa_atrazine_-_newsletter_092216_from_ewg_0922160942/
- Published: 2016-09-22T10:37:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:31:03.000Z
- Description: A fundraising letter from EWG citing its new analysis that cancer-causing chromium-6 contaminates water supplies serving more than 200 million Americans in all 50 states, and asking for donations to finish a national drinking water contaminant database.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Environment, Health News, #vivvo-import

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It’s LUDICROUS.

It’s been 25 years since I first discovered chromium-6 contaminating drinking water in Hinkley, Calif. And 16 years after that story was told on the big screen, it still ain’t over. Not even close.

**A new EWG analysis shows the cancer-causing chemical contaminates the water supplies of more than 200 million Americans in all 50 states.**

It’s downright INEXCUSABLE that the government’s still not protecting Americans from dangerous chemicals in our drinking water. They never have – and the crisis goes way beyond chromium-6\. Lead. PFOA. Atrazine.

Luckily, EWG analysts have been working around the clock to publish a national drinking water database to give YOU the information the government won’t.

But this crucial work is at risk. EWG is $50,000 short of the funds to finish its database and needs to raise it in the next 48 hours. **If it doesn’t succeed, we’ll have no place for consumers like you to learn which contaminants may be in your water, how they got there and what health problems they present.**

So ask yourself – what price would you pay to know what’s in your water?

[**Click here to rush a tax-deductible donation of $10 or more beforeSept. 23 to make sure EWG has the resources to get its national drinking water database up and running. The whole country will thank you for it.**](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2B%2B3yKcwcRc1QVFbwcRWGBm8CWkZTnkys&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Listen, I grew up believing that the government and industry used science-based information to make decisions for the public good. Why would they pump polluted water into my faucet? You know, the same faucet we use to bathe and drink *every day.*

When I found out there was toxic pollution in my drinking water, I learned the hard way that oftentimes, we simply can’t rely on the government or corporations to put our interests first.

**That’s why I’m such a huge fan of EWG, and why I’m so grateful it’s willing to step up and do the nitty-gritty work that the government won’t – because all of our health depends on it.**

**It’s up to us to make sure our children and grandchildren have the right to clean, safe drinking water.** Please, chip in whatever you can RIGHT NOW so EWG can finish its one-of-a-kind national drinking water database. We simply can’t afford *not* to have this critical resource.

[**Click here to rush a tax-deductible donation of $10 or more to get EWG’s new tap water database across the finish line.**](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=dWdn2RhDlNpnrln9ATwa328CWkZTnkys&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Thank you for standing with me on this – it seriously couldn’t be more important.

Fight on,

  
Erin Brockovich

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