To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) – 126 military bases across the country have dangerous chemicals in their drinking water.
Two of those bases are in Wisconsin, both General Mitchell Air Reserve Station in Milwaukee and Ft. McCoy in Western Wisconsin.
The military started using the foam back in the 1970’s, but it wasn’t until 2000 that the EPA started looking at the danger, and it was 2009 before the military took notice.
The dangerous levels of PFOS and PFOA were found in five of the six wells tested at Mitchell, with some wells testing far above the EPA standards for safety.
But the problem stretches outside military bases as well.
The Pentagon found groundwater contamination and 564 wells that were not on bases across the country.
The testing done at Mitchell was limited to six wells on base.
The 128th Air Refueling Wing stationed at Mitchell was not able to talk on camera Friday.
The Air Force says they are trying to fix the problem, including adding filters and in some cases, giving bottled water to people who live on the base.
If you live near the base and have any questions you can visit an informational webpage set up by the Air Force Civil Engineers Center.

If we live in a Florida city we pay from $2.10 (Orlando) to $6.89 (West Palm Beach) per 1,000 gallons of clean, potable fresh water.
If we buy bottled water, we are paying from $1,100 (Zephyrhills Natural Spring Water) to $9,240 (Evian Natural Spring Water) per 1,000 gallons of the same groundwater in a fancy plastic bottle.
In Florida the water itself is free.
A common contaminant in groundwater in Florida and worldwide is nitrate nitrogen.
Even the bottled springs water for sale in Florida contains elevated nitrate concentrations.
Nitrates in fertilizer costs anywhere from 50 to 200 times less than the cost of removing it from drinking water.
Its called an aquifer protection fee.
While there are some costs for installation and maintenance of a septic system and for lagoons associated with dairies, there is little to no cost for prevention of nitrogen pollution for rural homeowners and agricultural producers.
All groundwater uses must be monitored and users pay a fee in proportion to the amount of groundwater they use.
The proceeds from these aquifer protection fees should be used for preventing excessive depletion and pollution of the Floridan Aquifer.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Erbil Governorate completed the rehabilitation of the main water treatment plant in Rawanduz sub-district, which provided safe drinking water to over 33,000 people, including 2,000 internally displaced people (IDPs).
With support from the Government of Germany, UNDP’s Iraq Crisis Response and Resilience Programme (ICRRP) and Erbil Governorate upgraded key components of the treatment plant, including construction of a pumping station, main transmission pipeline, and water treatment unit.
At a ceremony marking the completion of the project, the Minister of Municipalities and Tourism (MOMAT) for the Kurdistan Regional Government, H.E.
Mrs Newroz Mawlood Amin, said: “I feel very lucky to be here today to open the Bekhal-Rawanduz water plant.
This project will increase the supply of drinking water to households from 1.5 hours over two days to 24 hours a day/seven days a week.
UNDP’s Programme Manager for ICRRP, Mr Ashley Carl, noted: “One of the first steps to recovery after a crisis is ensuring people have access to basic services.
ICRRP is strengthening access to basic services and improving the lives of vulnerable communities throughout Iraq.
With donor support, ICRRP has launched more than 30 new infrastructure projects across the country.
We are glad to have contributed to such an important project focused on supporting local authorities in meeting the increased demands for essential services to at-risk communities.” UNDP’s Iraq Crisis Response and Resilience Programme (ICRRP) promotes the recovery and resilience of communities vulnerable to multi-dimensional shocks associated with large-scale returns and protracted displacement of Iraqis and Syrian refugees.
This is achieved through a medium-term, 24-36 month period of programming integrating crisis management capacity building, rehabilitating basic service infrastructure, livelihood recovery and social cohesion.

In the North Bay and across California, our health and economy depend on reliable supplies of clean water — water we need for everyday drinking and to support our farms and fish.
Water also is the bedrock of an outdoor recreation industry that employs more than 4,000 people and contributes $731 million annually to the economy of Sonoma County, according to a recent study by the county’s Economic Development Board.
Sonoma County residents take pride in this beautiful place we call home, and most locals take good care of the land and waters we share.
California’s next governor will inherit some of the strongest water laws in the country, but laws are only effective if they are adequately enforced.
Whoever takes the reins from Gov.
Jerry Brown must establish a strong, transparent enforcement strategy to protect clean water for our communities, economy and environment.
With the federal government actively working to defund and eviscerate clean water laws, we need strong champions in Sacramento and throughout the state to hold polluters accountable.
Perhaps the most important water-related decisions our next governor will have to make will be appointments to the state and regional water boards.
All too often, California water boards lack the resources and political support to pursue and punish polluters.
She lives in Duncans Mills.

Multiple tests, both independent and government-run, have shown average lead levels dropping back below the federal action level as a result of switching the city from the highly corrosive Flint River back to the safe and clean Detroit water system.
But many of the city’s residents don’t much believe the water’s safe.
Because of decisions made by state-appointed emergency managers and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, they were forced to use water laced with dangerously high levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin, and contaminated by bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease, which claimed at least 12 lives during the 18 months the city used the Flint River as its municipal water source.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the Flint pediatrician who proved blood lead levels in children dramatically increased after the switch to the river, tweeted that bottled water should continue to be provided until all the city’s lead service lines are replaced.
In March 2015, Flint’s emergency manager refused to allow a return to Detroit’s system, saying there was no need because the water was “safe.” Then, a few months later, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality insisted the residents of Flint should just “relax” because extensive testing showed federal lead standards were being met, despite warnings from scientists that those tests were dangerously flawed.
For families who got sick believing official lies about the water, there are few reasons for faith in government now, especially when some of the very officials accused of playing a role in the crisis — including two health officials charged with involuntary manslaughter — remain on the job, while taxpayers finance their defense.
Emergency Manager In 2012, legislators passed an emergency manager law, which enabled the state to take complete control of Flint governance because of financial woes.
Multiple class action lawsuits and dozens of individual actions have been filed in an attempt to win some compensation for the damage done to residents of a city that is about 57 percent Black and has a poverty rate that hovers around 40 percent.
When everything’s accounted for, the emergency manager’s decision to save $5 million could easily end up costing taxpayers well over $1 billion.
If you ask the residents of Flint, they will tell you the crisis continues, regardless of what the governor says.

FAYETTEVILLE — Carbon filters appear to be effective at screening GenX from drinking water in private wells and municipal water systems near a Chemours plant in West Virginia, federal regulators say.
Nine of the 14 wells were found to contain the chemical, but none had detectable levels after the water passed through granual activated carbon filters.
News broke in June that high levels of GenX had been found in Wilmington’s drinking water, which comes from the Cape Fear River.
Since then, researchers have discovered 190 private wells surrounding the Fayetteville Works plant that contain GenX at levels exceeding what the state considers safe for drinking water.
The 14 wells and municipal water systems have used granular activated carbon filtration systems for years, after DuPont was ordered to install them because of earlier high levels of C8 contamination.
The EPA found that the filters appear to be working.
“At this time, no GenX was found in treated drinking water that came from contaminated wells,” the EPA said in a statement released this week.
The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, which provides drinking water to the Wilmington area, is conducting similar tests to see if granular activated carbon filters or ion exchange filters can eliminate GenX and other contaminants that remain in its treated water.
Meanwhile, the state requested that Chemours conduct a pilot study to determine whether granular activated carbon filtration systems can effectively screen GenX and a host of other perfluorinated compounds from private wells.
“This pilot study is to determine if granulated activated carbon filtration systems are an alternative to bottled water; however, they are not a final solution,” Leonard said.

The same goes for air and water contaminated with arsenic.
His nanomaterials-based water technology AMRIT is running successfully in the country to remove arsenic from drinking water.
Dangers of water contaminated with pesticides According to Prof T Pradeep: The term pesticide encompasses a whole range of chemicals.
These pesticides affect the health in almost every possible way.
India and contaminated water According to Prof Pradeep, the contaminated water is now everywhere in India which was previously thought to be limited to some specific areas only.
But to what extent the Indian water is contaminated – if you were to ask – I would say, to a very large extent…to dangerous levels.
Arsenic in food More than half of Indian agriculture is fed by groundwater which brings in the contamination and thus our food is contaminated.
Arsenic contaminated water in India In developing countries like India and Bangladesh, 50 ppb is considered as the accepted level for arsenic in drinking water.
The efficiency of Prof T Pradeep’s nanomaterials based water technology AMRIT to remove arsenic from groundwater Professor T Pradeep is very confident about his AMRIT, that is, nanomaterials-based water technology.
Commenting on the efficiency of his technology, he said: In most affected areas, we have about 250 to 300 ppb micro grams per litre of arsenic.

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today asked the urban development department to ensure supply of pipe water to all families residing in towns and cities of the state by March 2019.
Besides, the chief minister also directed the department to take steps to increase the per capita use of drinking water to 70 litres in urban areas of the state by March 2019.
The chief minister gave the directions while reviewing the steps taken by the department to supply piped drinking water to residents in urban areas.
He asked the department to conduct a house to house survey in the urban areas of the state and identify families who have no pipe water facility.
According to official sources, 760 projects are being implemented in the state at a cost of `3,596 crore to supply drinking water in urban local bodies of Odisha.
Official sources said 422 areas in 24 urban localities in the state where there is water scarcity have been identified by the state government.
As many as 1,869 PVC tanks have been put up to store and supply drinking water.
Besides, 219 water tankers have also been engaged in these areas to provide water.
The department has also constituted ward level committees for proper management of drinking water supply.
A 24-hour control room has been set up to monitor water supply and swiftly address any complaints regarding delay and non-supply of water.

Share: BATON ROUGE- The Louisiana Department of Health has awarded an $8 million loan to the Baton Rouge Water Company.
The loan was awarded through the state’s drinking water revolving loan fund.
The low-interest subsidized loan will help improve the Baton Rouge water system, according to a release.
The loan also allows the company not to have to pay back up to $500,000 of the loan for this project.
“Access to safe drinking water is critical to all Louisiana residents.
The Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund helps water systems fund improvement projects, bringing safe and clean drinking water to their customers,” said Dr. Parham Jaberi, assistant secretary for the Office of Public Health.
According to the release, the loan will fund a project to install secondary chlorine containment units at 60 sites plus one additional portable unit and a dry chlorine scrubber at a large chlorine holding facility.
The goal of this project is to maintain a high level of treatment and customer service while significantly raising the level of safety surrounding the treatment of water throughout the system, according to the release.
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"Coachella Valley Water District has been trying for years to deal with these issues of access to safe drinking water that are outside of their system of infrastructure," Garcia said.
With his bill, AB 2060, he is hoping to make it easier for community-led organizations to receive the funds they need to tackle some of these issues locally.
Here’s what happened so far: CVWD pushes for safe water in disadvantaged communities In 2015, the nonprofit Pueblo Unido Community Development Corporation installed water filters throughout Duarte’s park, using reverse osmosis to turn the contaminated groundwater into clean drinking water.
Garcia’s bill proposes a change to the existing legislation, SB 208, which specifies how these funds can be distributed to organizations implementing water and wastewater projects.
These local agencies often have more extensive budgets than many of the small organizations who are now encouraged to participate in finding and implementing solutions to the most pressing water issues in the area they service.
(Photo: Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun) Garcia’s proposal seeks to increase the amount of funding these organizations are able to receive upfront and streamline the reimbursement process, to ensure organizations with smaller budgets will be able to participate.
"It will assist our disadvantaged communities with the access to clean drinking water," he said.
Pueblo Unido CDC, is a member of the new task force and one of the organizations likely to benefit from the kind of legislation Garcia is proposing.
Pueblo Unido CDC, the Coachella Water District and a number of other local organizations have formed the Disadvantaged Communities Infrastructure Task Force to identify needs in the community, push for legislative solutions and divvy up funds that will help their members improve infrastructure in the area.
According to Assemblymember Garcia, this is only the beginning of the task force’s work to address the persistent infrastructure issues faced by residents in the east valley.