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MinimalAction on July 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contamin...

It's definitely worth concern but don't fall for the doomsday hype - this is the degradation of plastics. Probably nothing insidious.

USGS writeup: https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/tap-water-st...

The study itself: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

Map showing the regions with PFAS detected in tap water: https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/...

andsoitis on July 11, 2023 | [–]

Does that also imply increased estrogenic compounds, like what most plastic containers cause? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

Sunspark on July 11, 2023 | [–]

PFAS is a serious concern however and is present.

MinimalAction on July 11, 2023 | [–]

True. It's a heavy concern as well since we seldom have any idea how to detect let alone getting rid of it.

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