Posted on 07/08/2023 7:27:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
ConservativeMind (From the article)”To gauge the impact on drinking water, a team used water samples collected between 2016 and 2021
from 269 private wells and 447 public sources.
Their models suggest 45% of U.S. drinking water samples have at least one PFAS chemical. “(Emphasis mine)
Lab tests developed by the USGS can also test for 32 compounds out of the 12,000 that exist. “
“People can use a carbon filter on their drinking water.
It will need to be changed regularly.
Costly reverse osmosis filtering systems can also help, CNN reported.
(My Opinion): Know your water source and the quality of testing employed.
What systems are employed to assure high quality potable water?
Most community water bureaus provide printed copies of testing results upon request.
If you have a private well, when is the last time you had the water quality tested ?
Much information is contained in the article, as well as in the article posted comments.
Knowledge is self-empowering.
EWG is an independent watch dog who likes to stir the pot but offers no solutions. But they’ll gladly take your money...and give you nothing.
EWG is an independent watch dog who likes to stir the pot but offers no solutions. But they’ll gladly take your money...and give you nothing.
As I recall:.
PFAS is very hard to-remove from water. It takes a LOT of carbon (like one or two 4x20” GAC filters at the faucet) or it takes supercritical water oxidation, which means oxidizing substances are added to PFAS-contaminated water and then the liquid is heated above its critical temperature of 374 degrees Celsius at a pressure of more than 220 bars.
There is no legal maximum amount for drinking water. So municipal water sources lack incentive to add the special filtering needed.
A major source of PFAS is that the FAA requires PFAS to be used in firefighting foam, even though there are alternatives. The foams are used in training and frequently dumped by airports and military facilities. They can do this because, while it is one of the worst pollutants, it is not legally a hazardous substance.
It is made by DuPont.
One of the few legitimate functions of government is to provide or enable clean drinking water, but instead they are causing contamination.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances
Weeeelll, I really trust this news, now.
It is telling for me that these articles rarely if ever talk about the concentrations involved. I suspect they are minuscule traces.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good independent testing lab for water quality samples? Would like to do a test of our water system’s work.
My solution is that you either be happy with what you get, or clean it up to where you are happy with what you drink.
Of course, you could refuse to drink anything until you fix the source emissions, but you’d be dead long before then.
This is an excellent filter that gets rid of chloramine and chlorine, along with PFAS-type molecules and VOC:
MATRIKX CHLORAGUARD
https://1ca4c2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Chloraguard.pdf?time=1681928045
Our local water has chloramines and their byproducts, which are a lot more difficult to get out of the water. This filter now gets rid of PFAS, and I will be getting this when I need to change out my prior version.
Because bacteria can grow on any carbon media, we do need to replace such filters at least yearly, if not sooner, even if we came nowhere near the limits on gallons used.
I also use two filters that eliminate particulates to 0.2 micron or lower, but I do not use reverse osmosis.
"The Prepper Rule of Three":
You can live three minutes without air;
You can live three days without water; <-- THis Issue is being addressed)
You can live three weeks without food.
I agree that they are minuscule traces of "forever chemicals" in public, and private well, water.., however,
it is the total accumulation of these small traces that affect the human body.
Take for example, birth control hormone pills that may pass through the filtration system;
any light exposure would potentially be insignificant,
but collectively and in accumulated amounts, it would have significant effect on fertility (potentially of both male and female)water consumers.
Costly reverse osmosis filtering systems can also help
Some 500 years ago, Swiss chemist Paracelsus observed: “All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”
So what is the concentration of these “forever chemicals” in our drinking water? I’m certain that they are in far less than parts per million levels and likely at the limits of detectability. I prefer drinking RO water as my local municipal source is nasty in taste and makes horrible coffee
This site has a strange sounding name but I ran into it looking for info about a certain chemical. Site has info on PFAS/forever chemicals (they do not leave the body) and many products that have them. DH had to throw all his Glide dental floss away, he had just bought a bunch on amazon. The affects from the PFAS chemical/s are not good at all, detailed on this site.
https://www.mamavation.com/product-investigations
Product Investigations
We have used a Big Berkey water filtration system for 10 years. Before that we drank bottled spring water. We will soon be on a well at our new property and will filter the well water.
Queue Colonel Jack D. Ripper and ‘’Our precious bodily fluids’’.
“Dihydrogen monoxide. Scary stuff indeed. “
If you come in contact with it, be sure and drinks lots of water. :)
I wonder how rainwater is affected by this.
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