Two Major US Aquifers Found to Be Saturated with Uranium
Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have just completed a comprehensive analysis
of roughly 275,000 water samples from 62,000 locations across the
United States. These samples were mostly derived from two massive
underground aquifers that supply drinking water for millions of people,
and what they reveal about the safety of drinking water in America is
absolutely horrifying.
They found that the parts of the High Plains Aquifer (also often
referred to as the Ogallala) is saturated with uranium at a level that
is 89 times higher than the EPA’s safe limit. The southern half of
California’s Central Valley was even worse, with a uranium concentration
that is 180 times higher than the EPA’s “maximum contaminant level.”
