Having me so tell us a little more about this is this is a pretty disturbing study. It is a look the researchers dug into thousands of previously undisclosed documents meaning that these documents have been around they tested hundreds of houses from coast to coast in canada they found out that hundreds of thousands of people in this country are Drinking Water contaminated with lead its coming into their homes and the lead levels are higher or the same as flint michigan when you say flint michigan you think disaster so this is whats happening in cities from coast to coast in canada including places like montreal that you just mentioned nevermind smaller towns and a place called opal which is just outside of toronto so these are highly Populated Areas as well im going to some numbers here for you so dont mind me reading for one moment so the fact is out of 12000. 00 test since 201433 percent exceeded National Safety guidelines of 5 parts per 1000000000 now to put this into perspective wh
Good a part of. The day like you that i got. The police. This. Is our. Welcome back everybody the last thing not on tap at the lawless and joining me now from canada on the latest on the lead crisis is r t america correspondent alex must highlight that alex thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me so tell us a little more about this is this is a pretty disturbing study. It is a look the researchers dug into thousands of previously undisclosed documents meaning that these documents have been around they tested hundreds of houses from coast to coast in canada they found out that hundreds of thousands of people in this country. Our Drinking Water contaminated with lead its coming into their homes and the lead levels are higher or the same as flint michigan when you say flint michigan you think disaster so this is whats happening in cities from coast to coast in canada including places like montreal that you just mentioned nevermind smaller towns and a place called oakville which
It it just came out this morning and its almost nowhere to be seen anymore so not only is the media kind of ignoring it which seems much like what happened here but is the canadian government going to do or doing anything to upgrade these systems anyway i mean here while it may be slow we do have Government Programs to swap 5 or anything new on the horizon. The federal government in this country doesnt even have a program of good recommendations so they gave us a recommendation for this 5 parts per 1000000000 used to be 10 parts per 1000000000 what how much lead is allowed yeah were on board with this and theyre saying but dont worry our water come back here its clean its a ok go ahead and drink it now this comes out so who do you trust who can you trust and it is a. Problem here is a big problem is infrastructure so a lot of these pipes are very old you dont know which in the city that you live in if your pipes are old or new and a lot of these governments till they dig it up they don
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