Perchlorate helps build strong bones and healthy teeth!

From the Santa Fe New Mexican [requires registration]:

Los Alamos National Laboratory predicts the Rio Grande will be safe from contaminants on lab property for a long time -- anywhere from hundreds to thousands of years, depending on where the contaminants are located.

But low concentrations of explosives and perchlorate have already reached the river, by way of springs, within the past 60 years, asserts a Texas groundwater hydrologist in a report released last week.

Albuquerque will begin taking its drinking water from the Rio Grande within the next few years. But don't worry, folks. The water will be safe to drink. LANL says it will. And if LANL says it, it must be true.

There's a similar story at the Miami Herald, no annoying registration required. (Located, oddly, in the "Politics" section.)