Nearly half of nation's tap water contains PFAS, a new study finds. Americans living in urban areas are most at risk.
USA TodayAPR 2023
We are witnessing an environmental and health disaster unfold in real time as more revelations about the deleterious effects of PFAS become known to the public. Polluting industries obfuscated the horrifying reach of their products, which include our own bloodstreams. We are due for a reckoning over the extent of corporate greed and negligence, and we need to mobilize our resources to mitigate the effects of PFAS asap and punish those responsible for their proliferation.
The push to clean up "forever chemicals" benefits from a scary name and compelling narrative of corporate greed, but PFAS are far from the most dangerous pollutant in our water supply. In most areas, disinfection byproducts are 1K times more prevalent and more toxic than PFAS but receive little mainstream attention. As concern over PFAS reaches a fever pitch, we risk diverting limited resources from the myriad of other, more realistic threats to our drinking water.