Comments on: Study Finds Pensacola Has The Nation’s Worst Water

By: Scenic Heights Area

Scenic Heights Area — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:49:12 +0000

Something is truly wrong with Pensacola Florida. I am from a family that grew up near Scenic Heights Elementary School since 1975. We grew up extremely healthy with no family history of cancer or illness.
Between 4 people – these are the illnesses that have occured:
2 brain tumors
1 breast cancer tumor (covered whole chest)
1 ovarian tumor
1 cancerous kidney tumor
1 missing adrenaline gland
2 missing thyroid glands

Something is seriously wrong. My prom date died from a brain tumor along with my neighborhood friend. Both were barely 30years old.

By: Wei

Wei — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:33:08 +0000

So what do we do about it? ECUA has a monopoly on water, here. It’s not as if we can boycott or go with a different provider.

ECUA is too lazy and tight fisted to be motivated to do anything about it and claim that because they meet the minimum federal requirements that they have the best water in the nation.

D- students should make that claim: “You say I have the worst grades in my graduating class, but because I meet the standards required to graduate, I assert that I have the best grades of any student in the United States.”

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:33:13 +0000

Regarding:
Anonymous on December 15th, 2009 3:29 pm
“so, how exactly is uranium in the water? that makes me really comfortable”

It really shouldn’t since it has always been there. I enjoy watching the commercial where they brag about using sea salt, that would mean it already has Uranium dissolved in it. as you can see from below, taken from:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html

Uranium is a relatively common metal, found in rocks and seawater.

Uranium is ubiquitous on the Earth. It is a metal approximately as common as tin or zinc, and it is a constituent of most rocks and even of the sea.

Some typical concentrations are: (ppm = parts per million).
Granite 4-5 ppm U
Sedimentary rock 2 ppm U
Earth’s continental crust (av) 2.8 ppm U
Seawater 0.003 ppm U

By: centralalabamian

centralalabamian — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:36:27 +0000

Those of you on private wells: have you ever had it tested? may contain coliforms if you’re in a rural area, or radon, its naturally occuring in well water, city wells or otherwise, as is flouride. Chlorine is toxic, if breathed in gaseous form, but used in drinking water, it has saved untold millions of lives and ranks in the top five public health improvements of the last 100 years. Know anybody that’s died of cholera lately? Check your Pensacola history and see how many thousands used to die from drinking-water-borne epidemics. And to say Joe got cancer, and Joe drank city water, therefore city water gave Joe cancer is false logic. That is like saying I woke up this morning, I tripped down the stairs and died, therefore waking up is fatal. I’ve had a child with a brain tumor. Let me tell you: Bad things happen to people. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. Stuff happens. To stick your head in the sand and declare conspiracy all the time is crazy. Keep your well if you want. Fine. Dont spread old wives tales as truth, though.

Dont even talk about the bottled water. Its in plastic. Arent you all afraid of the bi-phenyls that the media and big govt types are scaring everyone about? Its trucked around inefficiently with exhaust spewing trucks. Soot and CO2 and ozone and bad air anyone? Its often made from city water!

By: doug

doug — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:36:11 +0000

I am in the business of filtration. I hear people every week say they either don’t care what is in the water or that the government is supposed to take care of them. Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” The EPA and ECUA can only do so much. It is all in the money and politics.

I really try to avoid talking about health issues and cancers, etc. My goal is simply to take as many chemicals out of the water as possible. I believe that if I do not put them in or on my body I won’t have to worry about them later. The sad part is that Chlorine and Fluoride are both poisonous chemicals. They can say all they want that in small amounts it won’t hurt anyone but I will still filter the water I drink, bathe and brush my teeth in. There is so much published information on tap water that it doesn’t take much to be aware. Get your head out of the sand and be responsible for yourself. I love to ask people if they buy bottled water and if so why. You can filter your own water for 2 cents a gallon why fill up our landfills with plastic?

You either have a water filter or you are a water filter!

dougthewaterman.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:29:43 +0000

so, how exactly is uranium in the water? that makes me really comfortable

By: Pensacola native

Pensacola native — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:04:39 +0000

I have been telling my family since the mid 1990’s not to drink the tap water here but to drink only purified water. There is not one family in the neighborhood that I grew up in that did not have a family member or members who have either had cancer or died from it. You would be shocked to know the odds for that is more than astronomical. There is a reason this county ranks second in the nation for cancer cases according to some reports and has the worst water in the nation. It might not take much research to find out the reasons why. I’ve known it for years and no one told me or had to. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or any real education to know that when every family around you is dealing with cancer that there is at least one common reason for it. The water. This may not be news to those who keep track of all that but the general public has been unaware unless they make it their business to know. Now they are finally talking about it. Wonder what would happen if someone did the research to find out exactly how many cases of cancer in the past 40 years of residents living in this county compared to everyone else in the country? It could be so monumental no amount of explanation except the truth would suffice.

By: alace

alace — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:42:47 +0000

what are the harmful effects of the many chemicals listed after years of daily consumption….i.e. drinking, baithing, ect? I’m interested in viewing the findings of an independent study.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:30:39 +0000

REGARDING:
Whitfield on December 14th, 2009 3:23 pm
“Why oh Why didn’t Pnj or Wear3 Bust their chops on this one???
What has happened to indebth reporting that reveal all the corrupted companies and padded pockets? Theyre all afraid of lawsuits!! Just stay out of court at all costs!”

Oh, I don’t know….Carl Werneke has written quite a bit about such problems. What was it? a month os Sundays? Well, every Sunday for a month anyway.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:14:54 +0000

That does i!

I’m going to quit drinking water until all chemicals other than hydrogen and oxygen have been removed.

And if it turns out the air is polluted whatsoever, I’m going to hold my breath until it is all clean.

Interesting that freon is listed as a contaminant when one considers the fact that it is totally inert. That is why it makes it up into the ozone layer. Only ultraviolet rays can cut it apart and the ozon layer filters them out.

and, of course there is uranium in most rocks and radioactive potassium in clay and milk is radioactive and the sun gives burns

I guess I better start holding my breath