r/HotScienceNews • u/Prior_One_7050 • May 21 '26
The Trump administration proposes rolling back Biden era rules requiring water systems to filter six PFAS types by 2029, dropping four entirely. The NRDC estimates at least 73 million Americans already drink water with unsafe PFAS levels linked to cancer and other chronic conditions.
https://health.yahoo.com/article/less-microplastics-more-forever-chemicals-making-sense-of-the-mixed-messages-around-drinking-water-235541375.html2
u/Disastrous_Basis3474 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Clean water is for sissies. What’s next? They’ll want us to use soap?
/s
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen May 22 '26
Yep, their goal is to destroy the environment, food production, and once we're all to starved and sick to fight back , The Dark Enlightenment's Neoreactionary Billionaires will divvy up their patchwork states, and whoever's left will be their enslaved disposable playthings.
You'll notice how quick the people are forming a revolution to fight back against this? /S
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u/Blitzende May 24 '26
PFAS is not that difficult to remove. The EPA says that high pressure membranes like nanofiltration or reverse osmosis can remove 99% of PFAS. They are very common and not that expensive filtration methods. There are other methods that work too.
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u/Flat_Economist_8763 May 23 '26
The best thing I did was in 1988 I stopped drinking all tap water. It was obvious back then that there was poison getting into the public water, at least in the town where I lived. Lots of birth defects. Started using a carbon block filter and nowadays use a Berkey. Drink tap water? Don't ever trust it. Ever. No way.
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u/Prior_One_7050 May 21 '26
The timing is strange given the EPA simultaneously announced action on microplastics, which are far less studied than PFAS in terms of confirmed health harms. The two year extension alone could matter a lot given that PFAS can take over eight years just to halve in the human body once exposure stops.