Poison in the Water: the Town with the Worst Case of Pfas Contamination
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The town of Kallinge has the worst recorded case of PFAS contamination, highlighting the severe impact of 'forever chemicals' on public health and the environment, with commenters reflecting on the broader implications.
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> News reports said the chemicals had seeped into the municipal water system from the firefighting foam used at the airbase. It had been going on for years, even decades, but no one had previously thought to check the water for Pfas...
If a small nation somehow acquired a competent government - how much would it actually cost to run a national testing laboratory for municipal water supplies? One that didn't just test for some "usual top 12" contaminants, but ran the water samples through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_spectroscopy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_fluorescence - or whatever modern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_chemistry methods were the most suitable to know what's actually in the water?