Widespread Contamination & Underestimate of PFAS Contaminating Tap Water

[Watchman]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) released the first tranche of testing data for PFAS in drinking water that found hundreds of water systems are contaminated with the toxic “forever chemicals.” About eight percent of water systems (serving approximately 14 million people) detected two of the most common of these chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, in their drinking water at levels that exceed EPA’s proposed drinking water limits. The data also surprisingly showed that nearly a quarter of water systems found lithium at levels exceeding EPA’s health reference level. Only about seven percent of the testing data that is expected to be released over the next three years was reported yesterday. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE