Test results can only be as good as the integrity and intention of who is doing the sampling and analysis. The avoidances described in this article are routinely employed all around the nation, giving very biased assessment of the risks and harms to real living, breathing, individuals that we know and love. The legislators are the regulators of the regulator agencies in each state, setting the funding prioritization and holding agencies that find additional water contaminant problems hostage. If agencies try to do due diligence for water quality assessment for lead, they often suffer punitively reduced funding for other good work that they find necessary while trying to inform public health protections. Therefore, biases and outright fraud play a major role in water quality sampling, site selection, analysis, and assessment for risks. As a result, our children and grandchildren are poisoned and become less capable of being all they could be. We can't even seem to change fishing regulations to use alternative fishing sinker materials that are less toxic. Our tackle boxes with sinkers in them get heavily contaminated by a fine black, nearly pure lead, powder that gets on hands, apples, sandwiches, cooler ice, and fish... that we take home to the frying pan. Congressmen, that pride themselves with teaching their grandchildren to fish, don't even know that they are poisoning the lunches of the children by using such highly contaminated tackle boxes. Pure lead particulate enters living breathing children we love... and they suffer the many toxic effects of lead.... repeatedly. Virginia Tech had to step in to do the work of the state water quality-responsible agencies because the agencies are not supported to do due diligence that we hire them for. The legislators across the land, both state and federal, are most often irresponsible because of the intense politic against toxic contaminant scientific assessment. Great societal harm is done, prisons increase in population, IQs drop,and we take two to four times the learning experiences to realize the consequences of our actions. States that have naturally corrosive waters are at increased risk needing careful pH corrective action, and prevention of toxic metal contact with drinking water.
Published by Ray Kinney
Test results can only be as good as the integrity and intention of who is doing the sampling and analysis. The avoidances described in this article are routinely employed all around the nation, giving very biased assessment of the risks and harms to real living, breathing, individuals that we know and love. The legislators are the regulators of the regulator agencies in each state, setting the funding prioritization and holding agencies that find additional water contaminant problems hostage. If agencies try to do due diligence for water quality assessment for lead, they often suffer punitively reduced funding for other good work that they find necessary while trying to inform public health protections. Therefore, biases and outright fraud play a major role in water quality sampling, site selection, analysis, and assessment for risks. As a result, our children and grandchildren are poisoned and become less capable of being all they could be. We can't even seem to change fishing regulations to use alternative fishing sinker materials that are less toxic. Our tackle boxes with sinkers in them get heavily contaminated by a fine black, nearly pure lead, powder that gets on hands, apples, sandwiches, cooler ice, and fish... that we take home to the frying pan. Congressmen, that pride themselves with teaching their grandchildren to fish, don't even know that they are poisoning the lunches of the children by using such highly contaminated tackle boxes. Pure lead particulate enters living breathing children we love... and they suffer the many toxic effects of lead.... repeatedly. Virginia Tech had to step in to do the work of the state water quality-responsible agencies because the agencies are not supported to do due diligence that we hire them for. The legislators across the land, both state and federal, are most often irresponsible because of the intense politic against toxic contaminant scientific assessment. Great societal harm is done, prisons increase in population, IQs drop,and we take two to four times the learning experiences to realize the consequences of our actions. States that have naturally corrosive waters are at increased risk needing careful pH corrective action, and prevention of toxic metal contact with drinking water.