AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new report from the advocacy nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) claims to have found arsenic, nitrate and hexavalent chromium, in Central Texas’ water supplies. Hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, has been linked to various forms of cancer.
The report, published in the November issue of Environmental Research, looks at removing all three contaminants together as opposed to one at a time. As part of the report, the EWA created a map that shows where contaminates were detected.
The researchers collected state-level agencies’ data from between 2011 and 2023, according to EWG senior science analyst Sydney Evans…