Following a brand new EPA rule, public water techniques may have 5 years to handle situations the place there may be an excessive amount of PFAS in faucet water – three years to pattern their techniques and set up the prevailing 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 techniques may have 5 years to handle situations the place there may be an excessive amount of PFAS in faucet water – three years to pattern their techniques and set up the prevailing 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 ingesting water requirements to restrict folks’s publicity to some PFAS chemical substances.
For many years, PFAS have been used to waterproof and stain-proof quite a lot of shopper merchandise. These “without end chemical substances” in a bunch of merchandise — all the things 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’ll accumulate in people and the surroundings.
Now, a rising physique of analysis is linking them to human well being issues like severe sickness, some cancers, decrease fertility and liver injury.
Science correspondent Pien Huang joins the present in the present day to speak by means of this new EPA rule — what the edge for protected ranges of PFAS in faucet water is, why the rule is going on now and the way the federal requirements might be carried out.
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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.
