CNN News: 紐瓦克市1.4萬戶家庭使用瓶裝水

We’re starting off the week in the largest city of New Jersey. A place where 14,000 households are now being offered bottled water because what’s coming out of their taps might have been contaminated with lead. This is a heavy metal. Exposure over time has been linked to heart and kidney problems, high blood pressure, and irreversible brain damage to children which makes it particularly dangerous for them and pregnant mothers.

我們將從新澤西州最大的城市開始?，F(xiàn)在這里有14000戶家庭提供瓶裝水，因?yàn)樗麄兊乃堫^流出的水可能已經(jīng)被鉛污染了。這是一種重金屬。長時間的接觸會導(dǎo)致心臟和腎臟問題、高血壓，以及對兒童造成不可逆轉(zhuǎn)的腦損傷，這對兒童和孕婦尤其危險(xiǎn)。

Doctors say lead is unsafe in drinking water at any level though the U.S. government allows small amounts of it before requiring action to be taken.

醫(yī)生們表示，盡管美國政府要求采取行動之前允許少量的鉛存在，但在飲用水中鉛的含量在一定水平都是不安全的。

Earlier this year in the tap water of part of Newark, New Jersey, lead levels were found to be more than five times the government’s limit. An environmental advocacy group said the lead levels here are among the highest in the United States.

今年早些時候，在新澤西州紐瓦克市部分地區(qū)的自來水中，發(fā)現(xiàn)鉛含量超過了政府標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的五倍。一個環(huán)保組織表示，這里的鉛含量是美國最高的。

City and state officials say they’re taking steps to address the problem but residents of Newark say for years, their leaders have denied there was one. The city has two water treatment plants. It says the water that leaves those plants is lead free and that the pipes that transport it are too.

市和州政府官員表示，他們正在采取措施解決這一問題，但紐瓦克居民表示，多年來，他們的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人一直否認(rèn)存在這樣的問題。這個城市有兩個水處理廠。報(bào)告說，這些植物葉子上的水是無鉛的，輸送這些水的管道也是無鉛的。

But Newark says lead can get into the water when it goes through the service pipes that connect water mains to homes. The city says those are owned by individual property owners and the long term solution is to replace the service pipes. That would come at a cost of about $1,000 or less per homeowner.

但是紐瓦克市表示，當(dāng)鉛通過連接家庭水管的服務(wù)管道進(jìn)入水中時，就進(jìn)入水中。市政府表示，這些管道由個人業(yè)主所有，長遠(yuǎn)的解決方案是更換服務(wù)管道。每個房主大約花費(fèi)1000美元。

In the short term, the city’s been giving tens of thousands of lead safe water filters to those who are affected but some tests have shown that the water still has higher lead levels than the government allows.

短期內(nèi)，該市已經(jīng)向那些受影響的人提供了數(shù)萬個鉛安全濾水器，但一些測試顯示，水中的鉛含量仍然高于政府允許的水平。

Legal action has been taken against Newark and while all this plays out in New Jersey, the effects are still rippling from a water crisis in Flint, Michigan years after it was acknowledged.

紐瓦克市已經(jīng)采取了法律行動，雖然這一切都發(fā)生在新澤西州，但密歇根州弗林特市的水危機(jī)在多年后，其影響仍存在。