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
This is an example of the way activists and permanant agency bureaucrats rule our daily lives. They have an adversarial relationship with business. They set unrealistic goals and standards in regulation all without legislation.