{"id":1920,"date":"2004-03-28T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T00:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/28\/1920.html"},"modified":"2004-03-28T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T00:20:45","slug":"tap-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/28\/tap-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somehow in yesterday's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=1916\">entry on water purity<\/a> I managed to completely forget to mention the flip side of the coin: The Washington, D.C. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcwasa.com\/\">Water and Sewer Authority<\/a> (DCWASA) recently determined that two-thirds of the DC-area residences they tested had tap water that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64766-2004Jan30&notFound=true\">exceeded the EPA lead limit<\/a>.  Apparently there's much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7061-2004Feb2\">disagreement over how big a problem this is<\/a>; dust from lead paint is apparently a much greater hazard to children's health.  But the guy I heard talking about this on NPR a couple weeks ago suggested that the sudden increase in lead levels could be due to a change in how the municipal water is processed&#8212;new chemicals leaching lead out of pipes&#8212;and that other cities are adopting that processing technology as well, possibly leading to increased lead levels in a lot of places.<\/p>\n<p>There are apparently filters you can buy that will filter out lead, but I'm not sure whether all tap-water filters get the lead out (as it were).<\/p>\n<p>I guess the moral is that water from any source can be dangerous.  (And remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhmo.org\/\">dihydrogen monoxide<\/a> is itself a potentially fatal chemical!)  Filters good.  Now that my tap water has stopped tasting terrible (so I've been drinking it again), I probably ought to get a filter of some sort.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow in yesterday&#8217;s entry on water purity I managed to completely forget to mention the flip side of the coin:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}