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University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers Karrie Weber and Jason Nolan have tested 275,000 water samples collected from 62,000 locations across the US, and what they’ve found will be shocking to some.
The samples were taken primarily from two large aquifers, which supply drinking water to millions of people. When you look at the results and compare them to the commentary offered by artists of our time – such as the song ‘Radioactive’ by Imagine Dragons – you can understand why we need a revolution.
The researchers found that parts of the High Plains Aquifer, also known as the Ogallala, is saturated with uranium at a level exceeding the EPA’s ‘safe limit’ 89 fold. California’s Central Valley was even worse, with a uranium concentration that is 180 times higher than the EPA’s maximum allowable contamination level, yet we are all supposed to be drinking this radioactive water?
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