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Arsenic in Hopis' water twice the EPA limit, and it may be making them sick

HOPI RESERVATION – When their water doesn’t taste right, many residents living on First Mesa will boil it.

Boiling gets rid of the taste of chlorine, which the Hopi Tribe uses to treat its water. But it does nothing about the tasteless, odorless arsenic that could be making tribal members sick.

Zora Polingyumptewa, 76, and Anita Polacca, 92, preferred the water in nearby springs, which sustained the community of Sichomovi on the rocky mesa for as long as they could remember. It wasn’t until running water came in the 1980s that the water began to taste odd.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-water/2016/08/24/natural-arsenic-poisons-hopi-reservation-water/88317458/

 

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