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Transcript: EPA PROTECTS PUBLIC HEALTH FROM ARSENIC IN DRINKING WATER, STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT: SAFE, CLEAN DRINKING WATER
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- January 17, 2001
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today reduced public
health
risks from arsenic in the nation's drinking water. The agency is establishing
a new arsenic standard for drinking water at 10 parts per billion
(ppb),
down from the current 50 ppb level. Today's action will provide additional
protection to at least 13 million Americans from cancer and other
health
problems.
All 54,000 community water systems, serving 254 million people
will be
subject to the new standard. However, EPA estimates that roughly five
percent,
or 3,000, community water systems serving l3 million people, will
need
to take corrective action to lower current arsenic levels in their ...