California's underground water is contaminated now. Things look bad to me.

[DhhD]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/02/1361757/-California-family-has-black-water-water-company-says-it-s-good-to-drink?detail=email

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/10/1335729/-3-billion-gallons-of-oil-industry-wastewater-has-been-injected-illegally-into-California-Aquifers

[Newest Reality]

1. Geez.

Well, it does not look like the right black water as per the Doobie Brothers:

[KamaAina]

2. Apparently this ick came from flushing the lines.

http://abc7.com/news/black-water-coming-out-of-faucets-in-gardena-neighborhood-/493991/

Sebastian and Morita say several other neighbors have complained as well, especially when the water company flushes the lines.

A Golden State Water Company representative told Eyewitness News through a phone interview that the company was notified of one problem in the neighborhood so they flushed the line. They now say the water is safe.

Of course they do.

[Journeyman]

5. Golden State Water, a subsidiary of American States Water, a private water utility provider. . .

They've had increasing issues in recent years with the municipalities whom they serve, with more and more of them threatening "eminent domain" to regain control of their water.

Check out this site to see what the citizens of Ojai are up against with GSWC: http://ojaiflow.com

Black sludge masquerading as clean water. That'll sell well with an increasingly angry public.

[KamaAina]

6. Good luck with that.

I'm sure Golden State Water can convince the legislature to make that almost impossible, as they have with public power on behalf of PG&E and SoCal Edison.

[CanonRay]

3. My grandmother lived in Gardena in the 60's

Even then, the water tasted like oil when I visited her in 1963-64.

[DhhD]

4. The Dailykos site does not seem to be working so here is another site.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2014/fracking-10-06-2014.html

SAN FRANCISCO— Almost 3 billion gallons of oil industry wastewater have been illegally dumped into central California aquifers that supply drinking water and farming irrigation, according to state documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity. The wastewater entered the aquifers through at least nine injection disposal wells used by the oil industry to dispose of waste contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants.

The documents also reveal that Central Valley Water Board testing found high levels of arsenic, thallium and nitrates — contaminants sometimes found in oil industry wastewater — in water-supply wells near these waste-disposal operations.

“Clean water is one of California’s most crucial resources, and these documents make it clear that state regulators have utterly failed to protect our water from oil industry pollution,” said Hollin Kretzmann, a Center attorney. “Much more testing is needed to gauge the full extent of water pollution and the threat to public health. But Governor Brown should move quickly to halt fracking to ward off a surge in oil industry wastewater that California simply isn’t prepared to dispose of safely.”

more at source

[Kablooie]

7. The oil companies should have to pay for an equivalent amount of clean water to be shipped in.

it could cost more than their profits and then they may stop doing this.

[misterhighwasted]

8. Any Water Bottling Co.s in that area? Any with the name "Freedom or Patriot"?

Profit over people.
I sincerely hope not.

[misterhighwasted]

9. And the antivaxers are worried about the purity of vaccinations. They should check out the water.

Geez.