Why was Midland Texas supplied with water filters?

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You’ve heard of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre – now we have the Texas Water Massacre!

Here’s another good reason to use water filters. Contaminated water has surfaced again and Erin Brockovich is back. This June 2009 she began investigating for 40 families in a residential area of Midland Texas. Some of them have been diagnosed with kidney problems and at least one child has stomach tumours. The residents are terrified they will get cancer. Their water was yellow and has since been identified as containing hexavalent chromium also know as Chromium 6. This is the same chemical that was found in Hinkley, California. The only difference is that the levels are much higher than Hinkley.

Bob Bowcock an environmental investigator cites the cause as Schlumberger, an oil field services company. Schlumberger, denies this and says they haven’t used Chromium6.

Erin Brockovich is well known for the famous case that she brought against Pacific Gas and Electric of California in 1993. This was the basis of an award winning movie starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich. The center of the case was the Hinkley compressor station, part of a natural gas pipeline which connects into the San Francisco Bay area.

The company used hexavalent chromium to fight corrosion in the cooling tower. The wastewater dissolved the hexavalent chromium from the cooling towers and this was discharged into unlined ponds on the site. This water then seeped into the groundwater, which in turn affected the area around the plant. The people in the area got sick and Brockovich helped them win their case and get the biggest pay out to date, $333 million.

As Brockovich says, ‘If some pharmaceutical giant has secretly been fouling your water table and your drinking water has been contaminated with Chromium 6, I’m concerned.’

The 40 affected families in Midland, Texas have been fitted with state monitored water filters.

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