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This 3-page paper argues that the EPA may have made a ruling to clean up arsenic out of the drinking water without enough comprehensive data. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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drinking water by 80%. This would have knocked down the then-current level of 50 micrograms per liter to 10 micrograms per liter. The resulting controversy split published in the Cato
Institutes Regulation involve how much arsenic is too much in drinking water, and what the cost-benefit analysis would be to strip the substance from the water. The EPA pointed out
that the new standard would produce qualitative benefits of around $170 million per year, even though the implementation costs would total around $200 million a year. The EPA felt, however,
that the net lost of the rule would be offset, noting that the non-quantitative benefits of the new standard would outweigh the difference. The huge problem with this assumption is
that there simply havent been enough studies done (or rather, hadnt been at the time) that conclusively prove the arsenic-to-cancer link that concerned the EPA. To attempt to research the
connection, the EPA researchers had to extrapolate risk from cancer rate studies from Chile and Taiwan, where the chemical is present in much higher concentrations than it is in the
United States. In other words, with the new rule, the EPA is willing to spend an aggregate amount of money to
reduce arsenic in water, without a true understanding of how much arsenic is too much. Needless to say, no one wants any
kind of poison in the water. Whenever anyone mentions "arsenic," the two things that come to mind are "rat poison" and "Arsenic and Old Lace," neither of which are very
appealing. However, scientists agree that the 50 mc/l are well below the levels of either rat poison or poison used to deliberately kill someone. In fact, scientists have also agreed
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