Producing clean drinking water, especially from surface waters such as rivers and lakes can be a difficult, not always scientific process.
I hope with the high levels of chlorine they are using to treat the bacteria in the Hudson River water, they have good corrosion control, and they aren't poisoning the children with leaded water.
Trihalomethanes are the byproduct of chlorinating contaminated water, which can make the water slightly acidic which eats away at the calcium that keeps pipes from leaking lead and copper into the water. Trihalomethanes are bad news, but lead is even worse news. Unless they are testing people's home sinks, they may never know the effectiveness of their corrosion control program.
This article on what happened in Flint, Michigan should make everybody concerned. http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-behind-flint-water-crisis-corrosion-pipes-erosion-trust/
Upstate NY black bear nuisance complaints rising due to drought, dry conditions | NewYorkUpstate.com
"Carl Carmoney was camping recently at the Limekiln State Campground in Inlet early this month when he had a close encounter with a black bear. "
"I was sitting at our clean campsite starting a fire. It was going fine. My son was cooking dinner in the RV when an estimated 450-pound bear came lumbering up from behind me. He was about 20 feet from me. I got up, (quickly) put our car between him and me and entered the RV," he said of the Adirondack encounter."
"Carmoney said the bear "spent the better part of 3 or 4 hours wondering (his and nearby) campsites. "
"My 'spidey senses' were on overdrive and, that's an understatement. The bear approached our campsite four other times. We saw him (within 50 feet of us) one more time."
"In 1965, a young lawyer named Ralph Nader published a book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," which was a harsh critique of automotive safety. One chapter of the book w..."
"NEW YORK—Expressing their disappointment and frustration at the current state of technology, citizens across the nation reported Thursday that they figured everything would run on some sort of cubes of blue energy by now."
Does he get the special parking spot by the door?