Following a brand new EPA rule, public water programs can have 5 years to deal with situations the place there’s an excessive amount of PFAS in faucet water – three years to pattern their programs and set up the present ranges of PFAS, and a further two years to put in water therapy applied sciences if their ranges are too excessive.
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Following a brand new EPA rule, public water programs can have 5 years to deal with situations the place there’s an excessive amount of PFAS in faucet water – three years to pattern their programs and set up the present ranges of PFAS, and a further two years to put in water therapy applied sciences if their ranges are too excessive.
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Wednesday the Environmental Safety Company introduced new consuming water requirements to restrict individuals’s publicity to some PFAS chemical substances.
For many years, PFAS have been used to waterproof and stain-proof quite a lot of client merchandise. These “eternally chemical substances” in a bunch of merchandise — the whole lot from raincoats and the Teflon of nonstick pans to make-up to furnishings and firefighting foam. As a result of PFAS take a really very long time to interrupt down, they will accumulate in people and the atmosphere.
Now, a rising physique of analysis is linking them to human well being issues like critical sickness, some cancers, decrease fertility and liver harm.
Science correspondent Pien Huang joins the present at this time to speak via this new EPA rule — what the brink for protected ranges of PFAS in faucet water is, why the rule is going on now and the way the federal requirements shall be applied.
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This episode was produced by Berly McCoy. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez and Scott Hensley. Rebecca, Berly and Pien Huang checked the info.
