Reminder, lots of discussions in this thread about
INCREASING CANCERS. As stated in another thread...there's a direct proven link between our drinking water from the faucet and bottled water.
I say proven because streets, communities, towns, cities, counties and states have been showing the data linking their "increasing (unusual numbers) of cancers" for several decades and quietly settling lawsuits with businesses poisoning the water by dumping contaminants into the water or/and settling lawsuits with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the FDA.
Remember this, something I've been talking about for many years long before the Pandemic...
almost every American (including children) has these
toxic dangerous forever chemicals in their bodies from the water that we drink every day and from the foods stored/mixed with water for many decades that correlate directly with "increasing cancers" and other serious health illnesses/diseases for many decades.
If you're truly concerned about putting toxins in your body...get a home water filtration system for all the water that comes out of your faucet and then use that water to store your water in stainless steel containers...store in areas of your home that get no sunlight.
As for our foods...not much we can do about that.
Simply, we're fucked.
It's a scary thought and the reason why most shy away from the reality that every drop of water in America contains cancer-causing chemicals that are scientifically linked to "increasing cancers"...when the water is drunk, shower/bath within
without that water being put through a home water filtration system.
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Drinking water of millions of Americans contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
Water of about 26 million is contaminated as new data offers the most robust look into exactly which communities are polluted
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Drinking water consumed by millions of Americans from hundreds of communities spread across the United States is contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic chemicals, according to testing data released on Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The
data shows that drinking water systems serving small towns to large cities – from tiny Collegeville, Pennsylvania, to Fresno, California – contain measurable levels of so-called “forever chemicals”, a family of durable compounds long used in a variety of commercial products but that are now known to be harmful.
The water of as many as 26 million Americans is contaminated, according to an analysis of the new EPA data performed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington DC-based non-profit.
Studies have linked the chemicals to cancers, immunodeficiencies, reproductive harms and developmental effects in children.
Scientists and environmental advocates have increasingly warned about the harms of chemicals like perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in recent decades, leading to an agreement between the EPA and chemical manufacturers such as DuPont and 3M to phase out PFOA by 2015.
However, lasting pollution of the environment and human bodies with forever chemicals continues.
Studies show nearly all Americans have some level of PFOA, PFOS, and similar chemicals, scientifically known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), circulating in their bodies.
Additional analyses calculate that hundreds of millions of Americans are probably exposed through drinking water contamination.
But, the EPA’s
testing program, part of a 27-year-old effort to sample the nation’s drinking water for unregulated chemicals, offers the most robust look into exactly which communities are polluted. The data released on Thursday is the first round of a program that will test most US water systems serving more than 3,300 Americans for 29 different forever chemicals, along with the metal lithium, over the next three years.
This first batch, which analyzed data from about 2,000 systems across the country, already spells trouble.
According to the data, 220 water systems found some level of PFOA, PFOS, or both chemicals in their drinking water. That means about one in 10 drinking water systems contain the two most notoriously dangerous forever chemicals.
When including all 29 forever chemicals, the data confirms that the drinking water of approximately 26 million Americans is contaminated, according to the EWG non-profit. The data is also “consistent” with a
2020 study from the group that calculated more than 200 million Americans could have some form of PFAS in their drinking water.
“This data confirms that PFAS is a pervasive problem, and it’s going to be a massive challenge for all of these water systems to deliver safe and clean water,” said John Reeder, vice-president for federal affairs at EWG.
The EPA says the testing program is part of a holistic effort to address forever chemicals. In March, the agency proposed new regulations to limit PFOA, PFOS and several other sister chemicals in drinking water. That followed updates to the agency’s scientific findings in recent years dramatically lowering the amount of the chemicals considered safe in drinking water.
In a press release, agency officials said the new monitoring data will further help inform what actions to take to protect drinking water.
“PFAS are an urgent public health issue facing people and communities across the nation. The latest science is clear: exposure to certain PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, over long periods of time is linked to significant health risks,” Radhika Fox, EPA assistant administrator for water, said in the release. “EPA is conducting the most comprehensive monitoring effort for PFAS ever, at every large and midsize public water system in America, and at hundreds of small water systems.”
But the road ahead remains perilous, says Tracy Carluccio, deputy director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, a Pennsylvania-based environmental non-profit that has pressed state regulators and the EPA for nearly two decades to take decisive action on PFAS.
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Communities are at the most risk and are not talked about enough...Urban communities still use lead piping for drinking water by their residents.
What harm does "lead poisoning" in our water supply do to children ?
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has determined that
lead and lead compounds are reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens (causing cancer in people). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified lead as a probable human carcinogen.
President Biden has been replacing the lead pipes in Urban communities first before expanding to replacing the lead pipes in suburbs and then rural communities in America.
In contrast, in the last few days of
former President Trump...one of his last executive orders before leaving the Oval Office...he killed the "lead pipe replacement" bill. Some suspected he was angry at Americans for causing him to lose the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
Republicans believe it's the responsibility of the homeowners to replace the lead piping in their home and Republicans believe it is NOT the government's responsibility to replace the lead piping system before it reaches the American consumer...
Biden Administration believes it is the government's responsibility to replace the lead piping before the water reaches the homes/apartments/condos before it reaches the American consumer including making the home water filtration system...affordable (not expensive).
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https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water
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