Water Making Machine

June 1, 2010 New York, USA
By Joe Kemp and Jonathan Lemire
NY Daily News Staff Writers
Nearly 75 Queens elementary school students
were hospitalized Tuesday after getting sick from
drinking contaminated water, authorities said.
Dozens of children complained that their
stomachs hurt after sipping from water fountains
in a new wing at Public School 20 in Flushing,
the officials said.
Students noticed pink water in toilets and
fountains, the result of a chemical dumped into

the water supply by a worker fixing the school’s
air conditioning system, officials said. Propylene
glycol is a sweet-tasting substance used in
nontoxic anti-freeze.
“Probably because [the chemical] was sweet,
they kept drinking the water,” said Dr. Glen
Asaeda of the FDNY.
SOURCE: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/
education/
2010/06/01/2010-06-01_more_than_80_queens_kids_i
n_hospital_after_drinking_contaminated_pink_water_at_
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