Nearly 300 drinking water wells and other water sources in California have traces of toxic chemicals linked to cancer, new state testing has found.
State officials released the water quality results on Monday, the first step in what’s likely to be a years-long effort to track the scale of the contamination and pinpoint its sources. Only a small fraction of California’s thousands of drinking water wells were tested in this initial study. Officials said they planned to examine many more, but have not committed to future statewide testing.
About half of the wells sampled did not have the chemicals at detectable levels — a result that state officials said was a hopeful sign the contaminants may not have spread as widely as they have in other states. Yet testing found contaminated drinking water in communities across California, from densely-populated cities with large and complex water systems to mobile home parks that depend on a single private well.
There is no agreed-upon safe level of PFAS. The Environmental Protection Agency has classified the chemicals as an “emerging contaminant” and has delayed setting a national standard for limiting the levels in drinking water. In 2016, the agency issued a nonbinding health advisory for two of the most common types, PFOS and PFOA, recommending that water utilities notify the public if levels of the chemicals reached a combined 70 parts per trillion.
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Welp...
Your World is not worth Saving and so it is only Fools that Hope for a Hero to Save their damned Worlds, when a True Hero must destroy the Hoax Worlds to form a New Legitimate World. You are Doomed for sinking with your Ships and You deserve to drown for your arrogances.
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Similar results were found here in Marmara region; and what happened then? The scientist and doctor was sued for having carried out such an investigation in the area.
Mofos! Universal Healthcare would be a MAJOR deterrent... Currently this is a cash bonanza!
It’s intentional.
Damn wtf.. isnt that a plot from a joker storyline lol smh
For how long? 🙈🙈🙈
No surprise here. Between the western diet and all the chemicals in our water supplies and building structures, it's no wonder that cancer is overtaking heart disease as the number 1 killer of Americans.
Tricia Nixon Enos I think was the one I was in a motel room with downy CA I have been looking for her im part of the Eisinhower Nixon Family my Name Mitch J Enos my D.N.A is at Washington CO AR jail I'm being treated like a step child here.
'Traces' my ass.
Well the dems are in charge. What do you expect?
I am absolutely not surprised. We put so many chemicals in our land, sea, air. How can it not affect us? We won’t be happy until we have destroyed our earth and all the living inhabitants. Solely because we want the easy comfortable life.
Freshwater is a myth
So what you're telling me is that I should only drink beer and champagne now?!?!
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If they were spraying it in the skies, how would we know?
fake news cancer is god for you
'linked to cancer'. But are they in amounts that can actually cause cancer?
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