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Drinking Water Warning Issued Nationwide
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Drinking Water Warning Issued Nationwide

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an enforcement alert Monday urging water utility systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation's drinking water from cyberattacks.

According to the EPA, recent federal inspections revealed that 70 percent of U.S. water systems inspected do not fully comply with requirements in the Safe Drinking Water Act. The agency added that some systems have "critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities, such as default passwords that have not been updated and single logins that can easily be compromised."

Possible impacts of cyberattacks include interruptions to water treatment and storage and damage to pumps and valves, along with alteration of chemical levels to hazardous amounts, the EPA said.

"In many cases, systems are not doing what they are supposed to be doing, which is to have completed a risk assessment of their vulnerabilities that includes cybersecurity and to make sure that plan is available and informing the way they do business," EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe said in a press release.

When reached by Newsweek via email Monday afternoon, the EPA pointed to additional information in today's press release and enforcement alert.......................

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Re: Drinking Water Warning Issued Nationwide
« Reply #1 on: Today at 02:27:11 am »
Anyone who drinks tap water as their primary hydration source is in trouble, IMO.
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Re: Drinking Water Warning Issued Nationwide
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:28:41 am »
Quote from: DCPatriot on Today at 02:27:11 am
Anyone who drinks tap water as their primary hydration source is in trouble, IMO.

I do...

With an RO filter in-between...
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Re: Drinking Water Warning Issued Nationwide
« Reply #3 on: Today at 02:48:23 am »
Quote from: DCPatriot on Today at 02:27:11 am
Anyone who drinks tap water as their primary hydration source is in trouble, IMO.
I would at only one place, where I grew up and the water is from a deep artesian well.

Otherwise, it is distilled or filtered (by me), usually.
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Re: Drinking Water Warning Issued Nationwide
« Reply #4 on: Today at 03:00:44 am »
Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
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