Omaha’s water used to taste like chlorine, but some years ago the Metropolitan Utilities District switched to using chloramines as a disinfectant, instead of just draining water from local swimming pools closed by our mayor to solve the city’s budget crisis.
Now both the New York Times and the Environmental Working Group have given Omaha’s tap water a D for disgusting because it came in 94th out of 100 cities tested for water quality.
EWG Rankings For Cities With Best and Worst Tap Water
MUD officials responded by raising water rates by 4 percent for 2010 and by accusing the Environmental Working Group of being “a liberal group”, insinuating that the people behind these water tests are Communists and Muslim extremists seeking to undermine our right to peaceful consumption of Atrazine and nitrites.
What’s in our water? Here are testing results from the New York Times and the Environmental Working Group. As you can see, both groups are not only liberal, but also foreigners from places like New York.
MUD officials defended Omaha’s tap water by pointing out that it’s perfectly legal to serve poison water, and that they are in full compliance with federal law when they bring you radon, lead, chloroform, arsenic and Roundup run-off.
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It ain’t the water you guys are drinking in Omaha…and Lincoln…that bothers me…it’s the grape political Kool-Aid you folks have been imbibing.
The free market will take care of this problem. Relax.