<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A new drinking water crisis hits US military bases across the nation<br class=""><br class="">by Jaden Urbi<div class="">CNBC</div><div class="">July 13, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The U.S. military’s use of firefighting foam that contains potentially dangerous chemical compounds could have serious health consequences for the workers who handle it and those who live nearby.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Department of Defense had identified 401 military sitesthat could be contaminated with the toxic compounds, known as PFAS, as of August 2017. The Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University have mapped at least 712 documented cases of PFAS contamination across 49 states, as of July 2019. That map includes contamination on military bases along with industrial plants, commercial airports and firefighting training sites.<br class=""><br class="">…<br class=""><br class="">For the entire article and the <b class="">21-minute video</b>, see<br class=""><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/new-drinking-water-crisis--stemming-from-us-military-bases-pfas-contamination.html" class="">https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/new-drinking-water-crisis--stemming-from-us-military-bases-pfas-contamination.html</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Lenny Siegel<br class="">Executive Director<br class="">Center for Public Environmental Oversight<br class="">a project of the Pacific Studies Center<br class="">P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042<br class="">Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <br class=""><lsiegel@cpeo.org><br class="">http://www.cpeo.org<br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>