14 DAY TRIAL // A couple of days ago, West Virginia American Water announced that people living in certain areas in the state could drink tap water without fearing that they would ingest worrying amounts of a chemical compound that spilled in Elk River earlier this month.
All in all, the water ban was lifted for about 200,000 people living in the state of West Virginia in the United States. According to Think Progress, the ban was lifted because the water was found to contain less than 1 part per million crude MCHM (4-methylcyclohexane methanol).
Thus, the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers this concentration of said chemical compound not to be a threat to public health.
Despite West Virginia American Water's beginning to lift the water ban, pregnant women in the state have been asked not to drink tap water and settle for consuming bottled one instead.
Thus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged that “pregnant women drink bottled water until there are no longer detectable levels of MCHM in the water distribution system.”
The Centers stresses that it has made this recommendation not because it has knowledge that the contaminated water could cause pregnant women to experience severe health issues, but “out of an abundance of caution.”