{"id":655,"date":"2023-07-09T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theoaktree.us\/?p=655"},"modified":"2023-07-24T02:19:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T02:19:28","slug":"it-is-a-long-established-fact-that-reader-will-be-distracted-by-the-readable-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoaktree.us\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with \u2018forever chemicals,\u2019 government study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"655\" class=\"elementor elementor-655\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-52e69567 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"52e69567\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e0fced4\" data-id=\"e0fced4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7994a314 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7994a314\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cljq7f64b001g26qi717qaqsr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with chemicals known as \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0160412023003069?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new study from<\/a>&nbsp;the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cljq8cin3000u3b6fni5la7oa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren\u2019t able to test for all of these per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS, chemicals that are considered dangerous to human health. There are more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2020\/EM\/D0EM00291G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12,000 types<\/a>&nbsp;of PFAS, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/health\/topics\/agents\/pfc\/index.cfm#:~:text=More%20than%209%2C000%20PFAS%20have%20been%20identified.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>, but this study looked at only 32 of the compounds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content related-content--article\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cljq83uva004o336f4pkpfr9i@published\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\"><span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">How to reduce PFAS in your drinking water, according to experts<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cljq7wh3f001n336ftppsqjyh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">PFAS are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/26\/health\/pfas-epa-forever-chemicals-hazardous-wellness\/index.html\">a family of ubiquitous synthetic chemicals<\/a>&nbsp;that linger in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/full\/10.1126\/science.abg9065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the environment<\/a>&nbsp;and the human body. 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