People are not good at assessing how much bad stuff is in water. For example, the amount of tritium in the infamous Fukushima water is about 3 grams, and it's planned to be released over 30 years at concentrations below 1/100th of the regulatory limit in clean drinking water. Korean and Chinese nuclear plants all release far more tritium than is in those tanks, yet they still protested the release for years and years. Kinda nuts.

Why it's news (biases, politics, etc.) is more interesting than the news itself.