PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TODAY AND DEMAND CLEAN DRINKING WATER FOR KERN COUNTY RESIDENTS!

A known carcinogen was detected in levels higher than 200 times the state recommendation in Kern County water, according to the Cal Water Annual Water Quality Report.

The state has determined 1,2,3-TCP was a carcinogen back in 1992. “There is absolutely no question that is a genotoxic carcinogen,” says Robert Howd, a toxicologist who led the scientific review for the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).

"When you look at a map, you can see that it's disproportionately found in the Central Valley. Specifically in Kern County... so there's more places with 1,2,3 TCP in Kern County and also the detection with the highest amount," Gerardo Tinoco, South Kern Community Programs Coordinator at Community Water Center.

Tinoco says this chemical is not only harmful to ingest by drinking but you can soak it in while showering. He compared it to arsenic, saying a one time exposure will not make you sick, but research links years of exposure with multiple kinds of cancer.

To protect yourself and your family, Tinoco suggests using bottled water until a maximum level has been set by the Water Board.

Until our water is cleaned up - our local government needs to:

Identify the best filters to get 1,2,3-TCP out of our water, and; Then supply the filters to Kern County residents free of charge.

If our local government refuses to provide us with CLEAN DRINKING WATER FREE OF CARCINOGEN 1,2,3-TCP, they are saying with their actions that they:

Don't care that your children are soaking in cancer while they shower and bathe Don't care about your families when you wash and cook your food in cancerous water Don't care about the food we ingest and distribute to the world - we are watering our crops and animals that WE EAT with this carcinogenic water Are going to ignore the fact that many of our youth will develop cancer as adults because of this toxin in our water

SIGN THIS PETITION TODAY AND DEMAND CLEAN DRINKING WATER FOR KERN COUNTY RESIDENTS!

For more information about 1,2,3 TCP visit these links:

http://www.communitywatercenter.org/tags/123_tcp

http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/123TCP.shtml

http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/excessive-levels-of-carcinogen-123-tcp-found-in-kern-county-water-062216

http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/03/07/theres-a-cancer-causing-chemical-in-my-drinking-water-but-california-isnt-regulating-it/