[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: "U.S. Military Contaminates Okinawa’s Water Supply," Japan

[Lenny Siegel]

U.S. Military Contaminates Okinawa’s Water Supply

By Pat Elder
LA Progressive
March 29, 2020

Residents of Okinawa, Japan held a well-attended conference at Tedako Hall in Urasoe on March 6, 2020 to listen to an address by SAKURAI Kunitoshi.  The title of the event was “A Citizens Gathering to Protect the Lives of People from PFAS-Polluted Water.”  Sakurai sounded an alarm over the contamination of the island’s water system by U.S. military bases.

Drinking water in Okinawa is heavily contaminated with PFOS and other harmful compounds recklessly discarded by the Americans.

The meeting came together to lay out the facts of the contamination and to organize resistance to ongoing PFAS contamination from US military bases.  Activists are planning to hold a series of events in an effort to move Okinawan and Japanese authorities to take steps to protect human health from the ravages of PFAS contamination.

Drinking water in Okinawa is heavily contaminated with PFOS and other harmful compounds recklessly discarded by the Americans.  Meanwhile, the US military is unwilling to acknowledge or discuss the problem. The drinking water of 450,000 people is poisoned there.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.laprogressive.com/okinawa-water-supply/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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