Residents warned against drinking tap water as temperatures Tuesday could reach 100 degrees

As temperatures climb Tuesday to an expected high of 100-102 degrees, residents in one suburban Chicago town are being advised against drinking tap water.

The Illinois Environment Protection Agency recently issued another warning for south suburban Sauk Village saying the town's drinking water contains way too much of the gas vinyl chloride. The EPA reports water with low levels of the gas has been known to cause cancer.

That's an issue for anyone dealing with the latest heat wave, but for Sauk Village's 11,000 residents, contamination has been a problem for years.

"You can't drink the water out here," said Matt, who declined to give his last name. "They should have known that years ago just by the way it tastes. Something's bad. That's why bottled water is so big. Five-gallon jugs, you see people with 10, 12 of them.

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Sauk-Village-Water-Contaminate...