[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Military families feel betrayed over Navy response to jet fuel-tainted water at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii base"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military families feel betrayed over Navy response to jet fuel-tainted water at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii base


By Sharyn Alfonsi
60 Minutes
August 18, 2024 

The U.S. military takes pride in protecting its own. That's why military families we met in Hawaii told us they feel so betrayed.

Two years ago, there was a fuel spill close to the drinking water system at the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii. As we first reported in April, Navy leadership assured thousands of military families that the tap water was safe.

But nearly two weeks after the spill, parents learned the truth: the water they drank or used to bathe their kids contained jet fuel.

Tonight - you'll hear from some of the families who say the jet fuel tainted water made them sick. But first – we'll go to where the water crisis at Pearl Harbor began.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tainted-water-hawaii-military-base-60-minutes-video-2024-08-18/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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