Phoenix, Arizona, has been left reeling after Men’s Health magazine ranked it 100th in an article counting down American cities according to the cleanliness of their tap water.
Although the piece described Phoenix water as safe to drink since, like the other 99 cities mentioned, its 2005 contaminant levels were below the allowed federal maximum, the city’s Water Department still took issue with the ranking, saying that it sends out a water quality report every year to its citizens revealing the origin of its tap water, how it undergoes testing and what substances it contains.
The magazine claimed that its chart was based on “the most recent data on levels of arsenic, lead, haloacetic acids, total trihalomethanes and total coliform bacteria plus the number of US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) water system violations from 1995 to 2005.”
Ken Kroski from the Water Department responded by saying that the list must have been based on a technical glitch that results in the EPA’s computer “listing thousands of violations that never occurred.” He also said that this was something that Phoenix and the state of Arizona are working on with the EPA.
A city that won’t be complaining about the article is Denver. At the opposite end of the scale, the piece ranks the city as boasting the cleanest tap water in the US.
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[1]: http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=metrogrades&conitem=0d719cf736b40110VgnVCM10000013281eac____#
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