U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
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#2Apparently there are now technologies available to remove PFAS from water: https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Foreve... but it is going to be expensive to deploy everywhere that it is needed.
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#3> previous estimate [...] that 110 million Americans may be contaminated with PFAS, could be far too low.
If that number is "far too low", everyone is probably affected. And probably not just in the US, they just tested for it.
Sounds like PCBs 2.0.
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#4> previous estimate [...] that 110 million Americans may be contaminated with PFAS, could be far too low. If that number is "far too low", everyone is probably affected. And probably not just in the US, they just tested for it. Sounds like PCBs 2.0.
Netherlands also has an issue with it. The norms and standards have been made a bit less strict. It was forbidden to move dirt, sand etc around due to PFAS contamination.
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#5> In 2018 a draft report from an office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the risk level for exposure to the chemicals should be up to 10 times lower than the 70 PPT threshold the EPA recommends. The White House and the EPA had tried to stop the report from being published.
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#6"The United States has among the cleanest air and drinking water on Earth."
Re: U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
#7Of tap water samples taken by EWG from 44 sites in 31 states and Washington D.C., only one location, Meridian, Mississippi, which relies on 700 foot (215 m) deep wells, had no detectable PFAS. Only Seattle and Tuscaloosa, Alabama had levels below 1 part per trillion (PPT), the limit EWG recommends.
In 2018 a draft report from an office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the risk level for exposure to the chemicals should be up to 10 times lower than the 70 PPT threshold the EPA recommends.
The article is all over the place with various recommendations. Seems to boil down (no pun intended) to:
* EPA recommends less than 70 parts per trillion
* US Department of Health and Human Services recommends less than 7 parts per trillion.
* EWG recommends less than 1 part per trillion and states in their report that only 3 out of 44 sites they tested met that much more stringent standard.
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#8"The United States has among the cleanest air and drinking water on Earth."
This quote appears nowhere in the article.
Mind clearing up what you want to say here or is that just a bad bout of dishonesty?