Online News-Cities, States Fail to Utilize Option to Meet Lower Arsenic Level
Often overlooked in the debates for a safe and cost-effective solution to meet contaminant standards such as arsenic-and one approved by the U.S. EPA-is the end-of-the-line use of POU/POE devices, frequently the most economical solution to both arsenic removal and source water scarceness.
In a typical scenario that is being echoed in small towns across the nation, officials in the small town of Fernley, NV, recently told the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Board that Fernley's primary source of drinking water by mid-2006 would be the Truckee Canal rather than the wells from which all of Fernley's water is currently drawn.