Areas that have low sucide rates tend to have elevated murder rates. While reducing sucide might be a worthwhile goal, increasing murder rates is probably a much greater societal problem.
People who believe that fluoride is added to drinking water by the government for mind control purposes, in my opinion, should seek mental health services.
"Each day the average toilet will use about 33 gallons of water.
That might sound like a lot, but it's a big improvement. In 1999, the average toilet guzzled more than 45 gallons of water daily."
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/
"There are some 700 species of leeches in the world, and about 500 of them live in freshwater. Not all of them have been catalogued, but as far as we know, Macrobdella decora is the only hematophagic, or blood-sucking, freshwater leech found in the Adirondacks."
"And even though the gross-out factor is high, leeches don’t pose much danger."
“There is no reason, really, to ‘freak out’ over leeches, even if they are kind of freaky,” said Craig Milewski, professor of fisheries and aquatic sciences at Paul Smith’s College."
"The waterlogged weather pattern, Ellicott City's flood-prone geography and climate change all conspired to make this flash-flood horror show."