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A new study from the Environmental Working Group says nitrate-polluted drinking water across the US
環境工作組的一項新研究表明美國被硝酸鹽污染的飲用水
may lead to more than 12,500 cases of cancer each year.
每年可能導致12500起癌癥病例。
The pollution is brought on by farm runoff produced by fertilizer and manure, and may cost $1.5 billion to treat annually.
污染來自化肥和糞肥所產生的農田徑流，并且每年的處理費可達15億美元。
Alexis Temkin is a toxicologist at Environmental Working Group and the study's lead author.
亞歷克西斯·特姆金是環境工作組的一名毒理學家，也是該研究的第一作者。
Temkin says most drinking water standards are a compromise between health protection and economic feasibility,
特姆金稱大部分飲用水標準是公共衛生保護和經濟可行性之間的妥協，
and that the true safe levels almost always below the EPA's maximum.
真正的安全水平幾乎總是低于EPA的最高污染物水平。
The Environmental Protection Agency hasn't updated its contaminant list for tap water since 1991.
環境保護署（EPA）自1991年起就沒有更新過其自來水污染物名單。
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