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Luke Metzger, director and founder of Environment Texas, said inconsistent testing and a discrepancy between federal and state clean water standards makes

determining the exact scope of the problem difficult.

"Texas is not alone in that it has standards that allow more pollution," he said. "It's unfortunate because it does put more people at risk."

The environmental group's report was critical of Texas' clean water standards and testing, which presented a problem with the report itself. Environment Texas had to rely on data from several different organizations, which in many cases may not have been collected by trained people.

"Given the lack of a centralized database and that data was collected through multiple agencies, a lack of consistency in the quality and frequency of testing across sites is to be expected," stated Environment Texas in its report. "Only sites with a relevant number of reported samples were used for analysis, limiting consideration to about 50 percent of the sites originally listed in the study."

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