A “toxic cocktail” is not exactly what you want to think about when it comes to your drinking water. But tap water in the U.S. can contain a lot of different pollutants - sometimes all at once.
Water contaminants are regulated one at a time. But that’s not how people are exposed to them. And they aren’t exposed by drinking them just once.
Exposure to multiple contaminants in drinking water over time can have a cumulative effect.
EWG’s scientists wanted to find out just how a complex combination of chemicals and contaminants might harm our health over time. So in 2019, we conducted a peer-reviewed study on this issue.
We found that the mixture, or “toxic cocktail,” of chemical pollutants found in many drinking water systems across the U.S. could result - if consumed over a lifetime - in more than 100,000 cancer cases.
To protect public health, it’s time to clean up our tap water.
Learn more by visiting our Tap Water Database at www.ewg.org/tapwater.
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