Strange Brew

While we have made great strides in improving drinking water quality around the world, incidents like the crisis in Flint Michigan http://nyti.ms/1RuBB29 indicate that access to safe water can still be an issue even in the most developed countries.  Access to safe drinking water is probably most tenuous in parts of the developing and recently developed world.  Check out this news story from the NYT reporting on recently released Chinese water pollution statistics: http://nyti.ms/25UCOFi  The headline statistic is that over 80% of the tested groundwater wells is unfit for bathing.