{"id":923,"date":"2020-08-29T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.law.fordham.edu\/elr\/?p=923"},"modified":"2020-08-29T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:59:46","slug":"the-disturbing-reality-of-new-york-tap-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"The Disturbing Reality Of New York \u2018Tap\u2019 Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Loren Naftali, Online Associate Editor, Fordham Environmental Law Review<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s tap water is popularly referred to as \u201cThe champagne of drinking water.\u201d\u00a0 Despite being high ranked when compared to other states, New York\u2019s tap water has been documented to include 16 industrial and agricultural contaminants, 9 of which are linked to cancer.<\/a><\/p>\n

Water is required to be filtered and comply with water quality standards.\u00a0 And yet, New York has continuously been granted waivers as long as it\u2019s complied with federal and state water quality standards.<\/a> The federal standards are provided by The Safe Drinking Water Act<\/a> (SDWA), 42 U.S.C. \u00a7300f et seq., which was enacted in 1974 to protect the quality of drinking water in the U.S. Despite purportedly safely regulating above ground and underground sources of drinking water, it was last amended in 1996<\/a>, leaving many contaminants out of regulation and into American\u2019s bodies.\u00a0 The SDWA provides regulation for only 12 microbial contaminants and 97 out of 60,000 chemicals<\/a> known to be in use in the US, our testing is ineffective to maintain our health.<\/p>\n

New York boasts \u2018rigorous\u2019 monitoring and testing standards such as testing the water 600,000 times a year and treating the water with ultraviolet light and chlorine<\/a>.\u00a0 Well Paris, France, conducts 1 million tests a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This leaves the health and safety of New Yorkers at serious risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Loren Naftali, Online Associate Editor, Fordham Environmental Law Review New York\u2019s tap water is popularly referred to as \u201cThe champagne of drinking water.\u201d\u00a0 Despite being high ranked when compared to other states, New York\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,51,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemicals","category-civil-rights","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}