[umgud]

Environmentalists say they are particularly concerned about the impacts on unborn babies and small children.

BS! Environmentalists for the most part are left wing whacko's who support free and unfeterred abortion. They also are anti business and probably anti-American.

[Myrddin]

GMTA. That must be the same environmentalists attending the "pro choice" rally. They're for abortion and worried about damage to unborn babies in the same breath. BS. They're anti-capitalists determined to destroy our civilization with unreasonable restrictions on industry and no restrictions on abortion.

[WayneLusvardi]

What is NOT said in this uninformed article is that if authorities drop the acceptable level of perchlorate in drinking water to 1 part per billion, from 6 parts par billion, sixty percent (60%) of the drinking water in Southern California will be immediately undrinkable because the level of natural perchlorate in drinking water from the Colorado River is 6 parts per billion. The astronomical cost it would take to erect treatment plants to get to some utopian standard would bankrupt Southern California. For further reading see: “News Coverage of Perchlorate Issue is 30 Miles Wide and One Inch Deep” here:
http://www.sdcwa.org/clips/2005/05may/050505/05050510news.html