Uranium in well water

[Holloway3@aol.com]

I found some information on the Internet which tends to contradict my initial 
suggestion that uranium in well water is not harmful. Here is the text which 
was found at the following URL:  http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/utox.html


>>>>With [Zamora1998], for the first time, a study on the effects of chronic 
ingestion of uranium with drinking water on humans is available. It finds 
that kidney function is affected by uranium uptakes considered safe in the 
publications based on animal studies: "A study was conducted of the chemical 
effects on the human kidney induced by the chronic ingestion of uranium in 
drinking water. Subjects were divided into two groups: The low-exposure 
group, whose drinking water was obtained from a municipal water system and 
contained < 1 µg
uranium/L, and the high-exposure group, whose drinking water was obtained 
from private drilled wells and contained uranium levels that varied from 2 to 
781 µg/L." These levels caused uranium intakes in the range of 0.004 to 9 µg 
per kg body weight and day.