[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate pollution in Israel

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Health Ministry: Water from closed Ramat Hasharon well is drinkable


By Amiram Cohen
Haaretz (Israel)
November 8, 2004

The Health Ministry informed the Ramat Hasharon municipality at the end
of last week that the local well water is fit to drink and that there is
no danger in using it "in the foreseeable future," in spite of the fact
the concentration of perchlorate, a potentially dangerous chemical, in
the water is hundreds of times the unofficial standard.

The statement followed the city's closure of a well in the Morasha
neighborhood, near the Israel Military Industries.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/498610.html
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