Question

A water treatment plant produces water that has an arsenic concentration of 0.05 mg/L.
a) if the average consumption of water is 8L of water each day,how much arsenic is each person drinking?
b)If you are the water treatment plant operator
and the chairman of the town council asks
you during a public hearing whether thereis arsenic in the town’s drinking water, how
do you respond?
c. Analyze your answer to part b. from a
moral standpoint. Did you do the right thing
by answering as you did? Why do you
think so?

Answer 1

a. 0.05mg/L * 8L = 0.40 mg.

b. Yes, there are 0.05mg/L.