[U3-L9] One of the main water lines supplying the houses in a town has broken. The town officials have issued an order telling everyone to boil their drinking water until the water supply has been retested and found safe. If some of the people chose to drink the water without boiling it first, how might their health be affected differently than that of people who boiled their drinking water?

Any heavy metals that got into the water could cause birth defects in their children.
The silt in the water could be carrying fertilizer residue which could kill them.
They could potentially de

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[U3-L9] One of the main water lines supplying the houses in a town has broken. The town officials have issued an order telling everyone to boil their drinking water until the water supply has been retested and found safe. If some of the people chose to drink the water without boiling it first, how might their health be affected differently than that of people who boiled their drinking water? 

Any heavy metals that got into the water could cause birth defects in their children.
The silt in the water could be carrying fertilizer residue which could kill them.
They could potentially de

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