Posted on 04/10/2024 8:45:14 AM PDT by dennisw
Are YOU living in a secret forever chemical hotspot? Interactive map shows parts of US where cancer-causing PFAS toxins are most common in drinking water - after Biden's new ban More than 70million Americans live in homes with PFAS-contaminated water
PFAS have been linked to cancers, fertility complications, hormone disruption and liver damage READ MORE: How cancer-causing chemicals found in food packaging have seeped their way into animals
Biden today announced a crackdown on forever chemicals in American drinking water that will force utility companies and local governments to strip the toxins from tap supplies.
More than 70million Americans live in homes with water contaminated by the substances and the government estimates half of the country's water sources contains high levels of them.
Campaigners have been calling for the substances to be removed from water because a growing body of research links them to cancers, infertility and a host of other health conditions - including autism.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) handed down mandates this week that would require six substances among the group known as PFAS chemicals to drop to near-zero levels in tap water.
They have been hailed as 'life-changing' and 'historic' and are now the first-ever national regulations governing these kinds of chemicals.
TYPE YOUR ADDRESS IN THE SEARCH BAR BELOW TO FIND OUT THE PFAS LEVELS IN YOUR LOCAL WATER SUPPLY
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It would be cheaper and more effective to buy each house and apartments a water filter. It’s ridiculous to expect your shower water, bath water, dish washing water etc to be super pure.
What bugs me lots more is water fluoridation. Bad for your thyroid!
Do filters remove PFAS?
Ah...you answered my question...
there’s a little area of St. Pete Fla where many people get cancer and die young.
I don’t believe these environmental wackos. Sorry.
Some funds are available to help utilities. Manufacturer 3M recently agreed to pay more than $10 billion to drinking water providers to settle PFAS litigation.
Everyone wants clean water. But people wonder why manufacturing and related jobs have fled to China, Vietnam and other places....
The real purpose of the article.
Who does that?!
Likely in St Pete that is the LGBT zone. Dying from lots of non-Godly things.
https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/
You can zoom in on your area/town w/o giving your zipcode.
I don’t know about water but I’ve lived in places with very toxic salsa.
To answer the OP’s question - No
6-stage under-sink RO system ... removes everything down to the molecular level of mineral ions ... have used one for decades ... requires some plumbing skill to install and filter changes twice a year ...
6-stage under-sink RO systems remove everything down to the size of mineral ions ...
It would be cheaper and more effective to buy each house and apartments a water filter. It’s ridiculous to expect your shower water, bath water, dish washing water etc to be super pure.
According to my landlord, who also provides the water, if individual RO filters are added then he’s on the hook for maintenance of same.
I have never used the tap water at my house for drinking or cooking, from day one nearly 40 years ago. When we first opened the tap I could smell chlorine and determined if the water was so bad they had to put that much chlorine in it then we’re not drinking it or using it in cooking.
You wil notice in the interactive map that the water for Manhattan (New York City) is OK. Itb is not “local” water. It comes from many miles upstate from an area where industrial development is kept out. Huge water tunnels bring the water many miles down into New York City.
If these are forever chemicals, it looks like the water in my town will keep me alive forever. :-(
My wife’s cooking has to be toxic, but she was the best looking woman in town. Whoopse
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