So My House Water Might Be Poisoned… | Ep 303

Summary
In this episode, Clayton Cuteri delves into the alarming issue of lead in drinking water, sparked by a personal notification from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. He explores the implications of government accountability, the historical context of the Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, and the financial mismanagement surrounding public health initiatives. Cuteri emphasizes the importance of individual empowerment and civic responsibility in driving change and holding authorities accountable for their actions.

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Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Lead in Drinking Water: A Personal Revelation
06:06 - Government Accountability and Public Health
10:19 - The Bureau of Safe Drinking Water: A Historical Perspective
15:11 - Financial Mismanagement and Public Trust
18:25 - Empowering Change: The Role of the Individual

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Transcript

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consciousness, exploring spiritual journeys to find answers in uncertainty. What is up, Conscious Monkeys? Welcome back to another episode of Traveling to Consciousness. As always, I'm your host, Clay and Kuteri. And in today's podcast, we have a little bit of a message, an incident that literally hit home for me today. And it really goes to. justify and validate everything that I'm doing with the American Congress party, at least in my heart, it does. And I feel like that this is something that we should all be aware of and how crazy this is because there's a whole bunch of different angles to this dilemma, if you will. But here it is. Here is exactly what I got in the mail. And this is from Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. So the department that's supposed to be protecting the environment. And I would ensue, I would assume that so that it's for us and specifically, and this is kind of crazy too. I didn't realize this until I was reading the fine print, but from the bureau of safe drinking water. So I guess within the department of environmental protection, there's a bureau of safe drinking water. Well, let's find out just how well they're doing. So the title of this letter that came in the mail is consumer notification of a lead status unknown service line. You go down and you start reading this and it says the I'm going to leave out some, I'm going to kind of redact a little bit of the information so that no one can, what's the word looking for? I forget what it's called. Whenever you put like your information outline docs. So no one can docs me, but essentially it says the local authority, water authority would like to inform you that the material of the water service line located at my house has yet to be determined. Subsequently, the service line has been classified as a lead status unknown. That means that all or a portion of your service line may be made of lead or galvanized piping requiring replacement. Water supplied through a service line of unknown material has the potential to increase your risk of exposure to lead. Yeah, no kidding. What is a service line? A service line is piping that connects your household or building plumbing to the water main in the street. Ownership varies by water system, but it's typically split between water systems, yada, yada, yada. How can I determine my service line material? Well, the local water authorities continuing service line identification and replacement. If your service line is found to contain lead or galvanized piping, requiring placement, you will receive a separate notice with information about service line replacement and if available, financing opportunities. So, know, we would have to pay for it. On top of that, they've been poisoning us. Who put this in? I didn't put it in. You think the person who bought this house put that in? So the government put in a lead pipe and then said, well, if you want to fix it, we'll fix it for you, but it's going to cost you money. And in case you don't know, cause they put it in here, what are the health effects of lead? Cause if you don't know, it's pretty tragic exposure to lead and drinking water can cause serious health effects in all age groups. Infants and children can have decreases in IQ and detention span. Anyone notice how ADHD is on the rise? Lead exposure can lead to new learning and behavior problems or exacerbate existing learning or behavior problems. how about that? Funny that right? The children of women who are exposed to lead before or during prenatal pregnancy can have increased risk of these adverse health effects. Adults can have increased risks of heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney or nervous system problems. And this may or may not be what you've been drinking for the last 30 years, 20 years, however many years you've been in this household. We don't know. Maybe, maybe you have it. We don't know. But if you do, we're going to make you pay for it. Not the government. We're not responsible for clean water. and we've been poisoning you for the last 30 years. Yeah. We're not going to subsidize any of that just because your education might be lower. Maybe you made poor financial decisions because you're literally less intelligent for having drank the water that we supplied you with. How do you reduce exposure to lead in drinking water? You may ask. Well, you run your water to flush out lead. If water hasn't been used for several hours, run the water for 15 to 30 seconds to flush lead from the interior plumbing or run the water until it becomes cold until it becomes cold or reaches a steady temperature before using it or drinking or cooking. Only use cold water for drinking and cooking. Like what? Yeah, because lead dissolves in cold water. This is insane. This is insane. Do not use water. Do not use water for from the hot water tap to make baby formula. Do not boil water to remove lead. Boiling water will not reduce lead. It's so insane. Look for alternative sources or treatment of water, such as the use of a pitcher filter that is certified to remove lead. And guys, this is just this letter. So here's the deal. You can look at this in so many different ways, right? First of all, why would they just say they don't know? Shouldn't they test it and then let you know if you have a problem or not? Because first of all, it's just induces fear, right? Step one. And if we know anything, if you've listened to this podcast at all, we do need to stay away from fear. With that being said, how insane is it that they're going to sit here and say, yeah, so we may or may not have been poisoning you for the last, don't know, 30 some years. And if we just so happen to find out that we were poisoning you. We're going to make you guys pay for it. OK, sounds good. because we definitely haven't been paying taxes and this Bureau of Land and Safety, let me get it, the Bureau of Safe Drinking Water. Yep. Bureau of safe drinking water. Is it not their responsibility? Are we not paying their salaries to fix these problems? Like what are we paying them to do? I'm to look up now Bureau of safe drinking water. When was it established? Do you want to take a guess of whenever it was established? Cause I'd be, I'll be very interested to find out. So the Bureau of Safe Drinking Water is charged with managing the federal, the federally delegated drinking water program. So they're just charged by managing it, even though they're underneath the Department of Environmental Protection. You think they would protect us from lead to carry out this mission. The Safe Drinking Water Program protects all Pennsylvania residents. there it is. Protects all Pennsylvania residents and visitors from microbiological, chemical and radiological contaminants in drinking water. served at nearly 9,200 public water systems. Well, if there are, is lead getting into my water, then you must not be doing your job very well. So why are we paying you? And then I have to pay to get these pipes removed. Explain that to me, please explain that to me. And I would love to know when this was established. Let's see here. We're going to copy this Bureau of safe drinking water. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. I just find all of it just so crazy. Okay, here we go. Pennsylvania Bureau of Safe Drinking Water is responsible for managing the state's drinking water program, implementing both federal and state safe drinking water acts, which if they're still led, what are they doing? here we go. Signed into law into 1984 following several community water supply contamination incidents, and yet they still don't know If the water that I am drinking all the way 40 years later, guys 1984, that's 40 years ago, 40 years ago. And they can't figure out by now if I'm drinking lead filled water. How insane is that insane in the subsequent year? Pennsylvania was awarded primacy. I'm not sure what that is. Primacy under the safe drinking water act, enabling the state to administer its own drinking water program. While the exact establishment date of the Bureau of Safe Drinking Water is not specified in available sources, it is likely that the Bureau was formed around this period to fulfill the responsibilities outlined in the 1984 Act. Well, 40 years have gone by. What is, what, what? Are we living in an indiocracy? I don't I don't my mind guys the more I dive into this the more that just I look at the world that has been the government programs the world I mean I guess it's the world but like at least the government programs with which have been given or put in place and just the lack of responsibility or accountability that has gone on in these programs. I don't understand why it still blows my mind. But for some reason, some way, they still find a way to blow my mind. 40 years, 40 years, this thing has like, my gosh, how much money, how much money has been, I don't know, collected? What would be spent, spent on the on this department. How much money have we spent in the last 40 years on this department? Okay, let's see here. Ba ba ba ba safe operates under the Department of Environmental Expatriation. Deep DEP responsible. Yep. Yep. Yep. According to deeps fiscal legislative budget, the safe drinking water management program received $7 million in federal funds annually with no change from previous years. Additionally, the safe drinking water program was allocated 5.7 million in federal funds annually. additionally was allocated in federal funds annually. Okay, so what is that seven plus five that's 12, 12.7 million a year. Yeah, so it's about 12.7 million a year. How much has it received since it began in 1984? I mean, I assume it would like increase the exact is a little difficult to find. So over 40 years, the Bureau, assuming the funding level remained consistent, $480 million in federal funding, $480 million in federal funding. Infrastructure investments in recent years, significant investments have been made in Pennsylvania's water infrastructure. For instance, in October of 2024, which was literally last month, they announced over $132 million in federal funding for water infrastructure upgrades. I mean, what did they do before then? How much okay and you guys are this is awesome. I think this is actually really cool because this is showing you guys exactly how I would research this what I would figure out whenever presented with a problem like this. So like now how much would it cost to find out to survey let's say it's a survey and find out if if residential pipes had lead in them, because I'm sure you could just test the water. Like that's like step one. It's going to depend, of course, typically cost between 300 and 700 national average around 500. You do a lead risk assessment. So how much would it cost to test all of Pennsylvania? Let's let's see that Pennsylvania. Full disclosure, am using chat GPT here, I think that's like valid. Okay, so there are 5.3 million households that undergo professional lead inspection. At the cost of $500 total expenditure would be about $2.6 billion. Okay, so that's not a viable option. that's professional inspections. Although using water testing, if each household opts for water testing, then it would be about $50 and that would be a total of $265 million. So Basically 20 years ago, we should have had a solution if all of our money was allocated appropriately 20 years ago, we should have had we should know if any household in Pennsylvania had lead in their water supply and not just let I'm sure you could test for fluorine or atrazine any of the chemicals that are reducing our ability to think clearly as individuals that are eroding our way at our pineal glands the ones that are making it so much more difficult for us to stay calm and be rational adults. So, 265 million, so we've basically wasted $480 million because they still don't know if there's lead coming into my water supply, which they could have easily tested by now. ay, ay. What are they doing with all this money? And that's just because guys, that's just the bare minimum, right? The bare minimum is just testing to see if that we have led in our water supply, testing the chemical comp, you know, maybe that's something I could actually even do for myself, even though I feel like that's something the government should be taking care of, especially if we created an entire bureau for it. But maybe this is something that could even just test myself, get a testing kit. water testing kit. want to see how much this costs. water testing kit. Is it actually going to be? What did they say it was? Here we go. Okay, 30 bucks, water testing kit. I'm looking at Amazon, of course, because where else are you going to buy a water testing kit? Lead, iron, copper, nitrite, nitrate, fluoride, bacteria, manganese, mercury, pH, total alkalinity, hardness, total chlorine, hydrogen sulfide, sodium chloride. I mean, I feel like they should also put in here atrazine. I don't know why they're not testing for atrazine. Maybe that's harder to tag. I don't know. okay. I might have to get this. I have to get one of these, test it for myself, give you guys a review. Let you know if I've been getting poisoned. But just crazy. I think it just, it's, just highlights the level of waste, fraud and abuse that's going on within our governmental system and how they've thrown $480 million at this issue. And yet we still haven't seen, I still don't know. I still don't know if they've done lead. like, why are we funding them? You know, I, on paper, I love the idea. I think it makes sense that there should be a government oversight to do this, but Why are we spending money on them if they're not actually doing what it is that it says they're supposed to be doing? So to me, it's just another highlight of wasted money in the system, them taking our taxpayer dollars, our hard earned money that they just want to rip out of our pockets. You know what? I'm just going to have to leave it at that. I think you guys get the picture of what I'm trying to say here. And I think that is very important to just realize that you need to take matters into your own hands. You know, whether it's, you know, voting American Congress party, because that will change these things. I'm not going to sign any sort of legislation that promotes these people to be doing what they're doing. They're going to give me full reports. They're going to be saying, Clay, and this is where we're spending all of their money. And if it's not on actually doing the things that they say they should be doing, AKA providing free safe water. They're not getting money. It's that simple. It's really that simple. And yet for some reason, whether it's bureaucrats, whether it's politicians who don't really care or they're paid to look the other way. That time's over. That time is over in America. And I'm telling you, the power is in your hands. I can only do so much. I can only tell you what I will do when I get in there, but the power is in your hands to put me into that position to make the change that you deserve, that we all deserve. And I know right this moment, you can't vote for me. know right this moment, not able to run. It's not going to happen tonight. But if you share this podcast, if you leave a review, if you rate this highly, it creates a ripple effect that will change the world. I seriously mean that to the most extreme or simplest way. You know, they say that if you want to change your change the world, you got to change yourself. And they're right. That's step one. Once you change yourself, then you can start laying a foundation for everyone else. you can lay a mold for everyone else to follow. Sharing this podcast is that mold is the smallest thing that you can do, but has a ripple effect because the importance of this podcast cannot be lost. Putting the power back into your own hands, taking money out of the corporate elites, not allowing the government to rule our lives. Of course we need them for some things. But the thing is, is if they are not doing what they say they're going to do, they should be fired. You no longer pay them. If you're a owner, if you're a boss, you know this, you have an employee, you have a contract, you do this, I'll pay you. That employee does not do what you pay them to do. You stop paying them. They get fired. So it is time for us to fire everyone who is not doing what they said they were doing. It is causing the biggest strain on the American people, on you, on your wallet. And it's not right. It's absolutely ridiculously not right. So all we can do right now is share this podcast, leave a review, leave a rating. Check out some of the other podcasts too. know I've had some great podcasts recently. So check out some of the more recent ones too. 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