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U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

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Post by CaptainZapp »

Anechoic wrote: post #10
CaptainZapp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It’s a quote from the U.S. president at Davos.

Ok, thanks.

I didn't see the sarcasm, which seems appropriate in the context.

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Post by stamps »

kldavis4 wrote: post #2

Apparently 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.

From the article it seems reverse osmosis is up to the task, but the problem is the waste water generated now has concentrated PFAS.

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Post by astura »

forgotmypw wrote: post #13

If there was a magical way of convincing every single person in the U.S. to stop buying X, what would we have to stop buying to stop this pollution?

I don't think there's much a consumer can do and it seems many of them are no longer in active use yet are still in the environment from when they were used.

>The chemicals were used in products like Teflon and Scotchguard and in firefighting foam. Some are used in a variety of other products and industrial processes, and their replacements also pose risks.

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Post by retSava »

forgotmypw wrote: post #13

If there was a magical way of convincing every single person in the U.S. to stop buying X, what would we have to stop buying to stop this pollution?

Teflon for example, is pretty stable when manufactured and in-application. But the company manufacturing it, DuPont, has shown despicable disregard for environment and people health and as such, imo, should get a healthy dose of "I ain't touching your products".

edit: one example, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...

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Post by shiftless »

userbinator wrote: post #12

Have any effects of this been noticed? It feels like a lot of these things are "yet another thing that might shorten your life a little bit", although the total risk may be very small.

Have you noticed all of the cancer that's been going around lately, for example? 4 year olds catching leukemia, etc? Where do you think that comes from? Maybe we just haven't been buying enough pink ribbons.

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Post by mrfusion »

kldavis4 wrote: post #2

Apparently 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.

I think britAs and the like work somewhat at removing pfas. They’re large organic molecules and they excel at removing those.

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Post by saiya-jin »

raxxorrax wrote: post #17
bronlund wrote: post #6

"The United States has among the cleanest air and drinking water on Earth."

Large country, so probably true for the most remote locations.

With that 'logic', Russia is way cleaner - bigger, much more remote, much less population. Anyway we talk about country as a whole, and TBH I think there are cleaner countries but would love to see some proper stats.
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