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?
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.
Thank you for standing with me on this – it seriously couldn’t be more important.
Fight on,
Erin Brockovich
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