Uranium—along with other toxic metals—has been found in more than 60 percent of America’s public water supplies.
The radioactive metal can cause life-threatening chronic diseases, such as lung cancer, heart problems and kidney damage, even at very low doses.
Around 90 percent of US citizens rely on public water drinking systems—and much of what they’re drinking is contaminated, say researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
The researchers also discovered selenium, barium, chromium and arsenic in samples of community water they tested. Community water system mainly serve poorer, Hispanic communities.
(Source: Lancet Planetary Health, 2022; 6: e320)
