Adding an important ingredient to Airway Heights water

The all-clear siren was sounded last week for the people in Airway Heights to come out of their bottled water shelters.

The water crisis, or whatever it will be referred to in the days and years to come, has apparently flowed on by.

But through all the reporting, that admirably began in our paper back on April 20 with a story that private groundwater wells would undergo testing, I found one thing largely missing among dozens and dozens of other media accounts, both print and electronic.

Context has been as sparse as the 70 parts-per-trillion number the Environmental Protection Agency says are...