Tap water: Should you drink it?

Just found this article in the StarTribune. I find it somewhat disturbing.

Tap water: Should you drink it?
Tom Meersman, Star Tribune

It's the question John Linc Stine expects every time he answers the phone or attends a public meeting. "Would you drink the water?"

It's also the hardest one to answer.

Stine, environmental health division director at the Minnesota Department of Health, cannot give a simple answer, and he knows that irritates people.

The question has arisen frequently in the past several weeks after a chemical formerly manufactured by 3M Co. was detected in city water supplies of six east metro communities. Even before that, two different 3M chemicals showed up in the public wells of Oakdale and private wells in Lake Elmo.

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