California's water supply system is severely polluted, and nearly one million people have increased cancer risk

Jimu Journalist Wang Liangliang Hu Li

Intern Zhang Tianzheng

According to California TV KCRA on the 27th, a research report released by the California Audit Office shows that nearly 1 million California residents may face long -term health problems after drinking water with unsafe drinking water, including the human liver and kidney injury and cancer of cancer. The risk is increased.

According to the investigation of the California Water Resources Control Commission, as of December 2021, there were problems with more than 370 water supply systems in the whole state, which caused the water quality to fail. There are more than 920,000 residents.

Nearly 1 million California residents will face long -term health problems (picture source: California TV KCRA)

However, the water supply system is not the only reason for the unsafe water quality. The low efficiency of the California government also worsen the water quality problem.

California Acting Auditer Michael Tilden submitted a report on July 26, which showed that California legislature approved $ 650 million in 2021 for cleaning up water pollution, but the low -efficiency working model of the California Water Affairs Bureau As a result, the funds were delayed to all the water supply systems, causing water quality problems to be solved.

Local people in California protested that the administrative efficiency of the state government was low (picture source: Associated Press)

"The State Water Resources Control Commission has only nine technicians to handle thousands of applications."

In December 2021, the funding supply and demand of the water supply system and the government maintenance plan of California (picture source: California Audit Office)

According to the US media, many economic difficulty in vulnerable rural areas have been waiting for the California Water Affairs Bureau to be approved to improve water quality. Tilden said that the State Board needs to immediately formulate an effective plan to ensure that their employees "do not waste limited resources".

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