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Big PhArma and Puerto Rico's Water Supply [1]
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Date: 2022-10-13
Desert Five Spot
As reported by Mother Jones here. www.motherjones.com/…
Puerto Rico is home to some 500 EPA-designated, toxin-packed Superfund sites, half of which were “active” as of July, meaning they pose an ongoing risk to the surrounding communities and ecosystems. Eighteen of its active sites are on the EPA’s “national priorities list,” which tracks areas most likely to release harmful compounds; of those, 15 are linked to the pharmaceutical industry. And Superfund sites don’t include every area where industries have improperly disposed of hazardous waste—just the most serious health and environmental threats.
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Most shocking, perhaps, is the extent to which Big Pharma has polluted the island’s groundwater. Barceloneta, a town on the northern coast that once contained 60 percent of Puerto Rico’s groundwater, has also been host to more than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies. By 1987, 41 percent of drinking water wells in the North Coast region were closed due to contamination. Some pollution in the area is ongoing, but much contamination also remains from earlier decades.
And this has been going on for a long time.
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