- "EPA revealed that dangerous chemicals are leaking out of as many as 16,000 landfills throughout the U.S. percolating down through layers of soil into the vast underground water reservoirs called aquifers." – Discover Magazine
- "Thomas Maddock of the hydrology and water resources department, University of Arizona, Says, "There is no doubt we have a time bomb on our hands. The question is how big will the bang be?" –Discover Magazine
- "Many of the 200 or so Chemicals on EPA's priority pollutant list cause cancer and other ailments..long term exposure to even minute amounts of most organic chemicals endangers the public." – Discover Magazine
- "So far, more than 700 organic chemicals have been identified in drinking water, and some of them are suspected cancer-causing agents." – Consumer Report
- "Trihalomethanes are created when chlorine reacts with decaying organic matter in the water. This group of four organic halides contaminates 90% of the country's public drinking water. All four compounds including chloroform, banned as an anesthetic in 1976 are either known of suspected of causing cancer." – Consumer Report
- "Today, a new specter looms over our reservoirs: cancer. There's considerable speculation that the rise in cancer deaths, now 20% of the nation as a whole, may be due in part to the pesticides, fertilizers and industrial waste that increasingly find their way into our water supplies." – Readers Digest
- "Despite improvements in both public and private water-treatment practices, there are still potentially harmful chemicals in 90% of the water we consume." – New Shelter Magazine
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