Chemicals in the drinking water, plastic in the salt. It's either you embrace ignorance or live in fear of what is in your food, drink, air. Kind of depressing.
Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up in Drinking Water
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty much everywhere. Tap water in the us is perfectly safe in most places.
More and more microplastics are showing up in drinking water because the particles are so small. They seem to be mostly coming from our clothing released during washing, which is increasingly made of synthetic materials. "The US had the highest contamination rate, at 94%, with plastic fibres found in tap water sampled at sites including Congress buildings, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters, and Tr…
People _really_ need to stop laundering synthetics. The amount of plastic and other material that sheds into our water is stunning.
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#13Chemicals in the drinking water, plastic in the salt. It's either you embrace ignorance or live in fear of what is in your food, drink, air. Kind of depressing.
Um, I believe there is another alternative, wherein we use that information to regulate the use and release of those chemicals and microplastics....
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#14Curious, is there an easy way to test the water quality at home?
Not really, maybe TDS/EC meters. But those are mostly useful for reverse osmosis water filters. Just get such water filter if you care about water quality.
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#15Is there anywhere in the US that you can live without fear or worry of having contaminated water or air?
Your fear can of course be anywhere. Rational fear, not so much outside maybe Flint Michigan.
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#16Is this something a reverse-osmosis system can filter out at home?
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#18Curious, is there an easy way to test the water quality at home?
I've looked into this myself. Unfortunately it's not practical.
Firstly, there are a number of different chemicals you might test for. Secondly, for chemicals that are dangerous at 1ppb only gas-chemotography / mass-spectrometry can detect that, which would cost upward of $500 per test per chemical and be done at a university lab.
Might be more practical to only drink filtered or distilled water. Normal water filters do a shockingly good job with most chemicals, not sure about PFAs.
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#19Is this something a reverse-osmosis system can filter out at home?
I'm curious about that too. We use a RO system, and so far I've only replaced the carbon sediment filters. I'm a year or two away from replacing the RO membrane cartridge. I cut them open when I replace them, I always wanted to do some kind of chemical analyses of the filters. Visibly they're just brown and saturated with rust from old galvanized pipes our building uses.
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#20"Last November, she announced that areas around the Cottage Grove plant had elevated levels of some cancers including childhood cancers , and lower fertility. And, she said in court filings, 3M was to blame."
- I wonder if chemicals are the cause of the 50% drop in male sperm count in developed countries [over the last 30 years].