'Forever chemicals' detected in water systems of nearly 2,800 US cities | ABC News
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2021
- ABC News’ Devin Dwyer investigates the growing concern over PFAS contamination and mounting pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the chemicals in drinking water.
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Nobody is trying to fix the root problems we have in this country. Everyone is trying to make enough money so that the problems don't apply to them anymore
Damn well said.
Blame is the game.
Because we have no class solidarity in this country
TRUEST STATEMENT I HAVE EVER HEARD IN THE LAST 20 YEARS
@@doctorswifto5422 interesting
This is what happens when we care more about the almighty dollar than fellow human beings.
Exactly. Thank you.
America is turning to scum because of this
Population Zero
Take the Ted Pill
Nobody cares still and won’t corporations win every time
I say we hold these corporate owners on trial for crimes against humanity
Kinda of hard when all three branches of our government are riddled with corruption.
@@julisa3100 true that , the “Justice” system never works
That’s when the rebellion starts once soldiers refuse the vaccine that’s mandatory and the citizens…
There is no humanity lol this is what America was created for
@@TheGuniverse2k they are very corrupted “people” that run it …. Life is getting very heavy
We should start doing something about this Money isn’t useful to a dead person
Yeah and the colorado river they Rely on is running dry, yet just in lake Havasu Arizona Alone has 7 golf courses and Phoenix has like 20. In the Desert..... real grass. Humans are done for.
You dont get it. The big owners have the money to avoid all this. Its you that suffer. Every single time. And the list of corporate products that use it are here to the moon.
you couldn't do a thing even if you tried! Ha ha ha you are the indians now!
@@mjs1231 that’s why it’s so important to vote! Stay engaged and aware of what’s happening in our communities, State and Federal!
Start by making each vote count! Stay engaged with our communities on a state and fry level! Be aware!
Why do government orgs get to decline interviews? It's literally about government transparency written into law
It seems that even with written law, corruption runs our government. This country has a lot of wonderful ideas on paper but the politicians ignore them and fail to implement them. It would be nice if we could trust our government but if only it could be that simple…
This is the fact that eveyone made fun of conspirtacy ppl for who have been screaming this since forever.. now thats its here in our face, nowww people want to see. But it seems it may be too late
Because no one will do anything
Agents of satan inside our govt have hijacked the country. They are trying to poison us with our food drink and consumer products. New world order led by obama and pope francis is coming. Jesus christ is coming back for the rapture. Get ready. Dont believe the coming ufo alien abduction narrative
Who will hold them accountable?
And yet people don’t want regulations on these big corps, embarrassing.
and how are you gonna pay for it?
@@user-hf2dr7sh4y how are we gonna pay corps to follow regulations? Uhh I don’t know maybe government enforced laws that protect consumers..? Just a thought..
It's about monaaaaay
@@Calizen I don't know that they meant their comment any type of way but it's true. It's all about $. We all know there's enough for what matters but our country worries more about other things unfortunately. My water smells like straight up poop 80% of the time so we bought a filter pitcher. I know many can't just up and do that though and your regular water should be healthy.
Thankfully they do now make cheaper filter systems like the PUR pitcher. Each filter is under $10 on Amazon and lasts 2-3mo. My water tastes and smells like it's straight from a diarrhea filled toilet. It's unreal. Lots of orange iron staining as well. Very sad that this happens in 1st world countries...
I don’t doubt that chemicals in the stuff we ingest and touch has something to do with the increase in autism, Alzheimer’s, cancer and other diseases.
It absolutely does. It has big part to do with the massive drop in mens testosterone levels. Which greatly effects every aspect of their life and health.
Oooooo but it’s conspiracy… don’t you know? (Sarcasm).
which ensures profits for big pharma
it also most likely is playing a part in the increase and severity of allergies, and has been shown to factor in to endocrine disruption and the throwing off of many peoples hormone production and regulation. Many of these chemicals can mimic certain hormones in our bodies, which can throw off a ton of our normal bodily functions and production capabilities.
@@knowbuddy0 BPA,....it's in all plastic products,....plastic wrap. Synthetic estrogen.
This is absolutely depressing. Instead of focusing on the ROOT CAUSE everyone is focusing on filtering the PFAS out... i have no faith in the human species what so ever.
I feel the same every day seams to get worse
Okay go vote to clean the water. As if that's gonna be faster than just filtering it out.
@@maskcollector6949 were you trying to make a comment? Cuz you failed
This shows that humans are so lower than monsters doing this without understanding the consequences
@@vannlo355 yes..
Mask came up weak there?
We need to stop “balancing” between having a healthy public and giving industry whatever the hell it wants.
They don’t care. It won’t stop until there’s no more money to be made. No one’s in jail for this but if you sleep on a bench in a sleeping bag within an eyeshot of their balcony, you’d be locked up. When do we get to eat them?
@Fittastic Shape enough with this blaming bs. Lets freaking fix our problems
Blame the politicians
@@wrathmachine7609 we must blame ourselves we don't hold the politicians accountable. We are their freaking boss
Say something stupid again, Joe Biden ANTIFA terrorist and democrat racial hatred klan member
“Industry interests”? What about public safety interests? Shouldn’t that matter more?
Thanks to the 14th amendment, which freed the slaves, ( yeash ) corporations are people too. Seemingly their rights trump ( no pun intended ) ours. Stop complaining,..if you don't know how many ways that these corrupt politicians, and agencies are allowing you to be poisoned. EPA said the air was safe to breathe for the first responders after the government greenlighted the attack,....thousands dead from cancer because of that. The federal government even went as far to threaten independent labs from reporting their data that proved that it was toxic. FDA approves thousands of toxic chemicals in products, the same products that are illegal for them to contain in Europe. So yeah, one should think that they should be concerned about the health of the people,...but guess what? They aren't, and haven't been for a long time.
@@earlthepearl4161 post this in an original comment, needs to be heard
@@user-hf2dr7sh4y cut military spending cut welfare cut everything to make sure people get clean water
@@user-hf2dr7sh4y You can't pay for anything when your dead.
@@earlthepearl4161 Henrik Ibsen wrote about this very thing in 1882 in Enemy of the people. That is exactly what they are. The people of this country need to take control back from the corporations before nothing is left to have. It may already be too late.
Oh, so I guess having factories right next to our precious water supply wasn’t the best idea after all!
Reminder that that pipeline that was shut down woulda run through our largest water resevoir
@@danielhicks1824 interesting
why can't they reroute it? when is fracking going to stop?
I’ve heard it said many times “in the future, wars will be fought over access to clean water”. I’m beginning to think this true.
Water has been the source of the wars is Africa for decades...
Europe is much stricter about banning dangerous chemicals. There are 80K chemicals which are untested and unregulated in the USA.
My Canadian construction employer only handed me a basic dust mask when I actually needed a full serious 1000 dollar breathing filtration apparatus on the high rise construction job site.
I called DOW and they immediately pulled the chemical off the market. It gave lab mice cancer and people Parkinson ms symptoms and pain and hunger and economic isolation that a pandemic only slightly compares to for the duration of lifespan.
Wealthy real estate church mafia infected politics and refuse to debate.
Including flouride B)
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All in red states too
That is so wrong it’s not even funny. The FDA is known to more heavily regulate chemicals than similar agencies in Europe.
The rotting system from top to bottom for decades now showing symptoms.
In Massachusetts it’s good, and is proof liberals are better than Republicans
Well we put all the pipes in the ground and then build roads and houses on top of them. Replacing the whole water system is basically impossible at this point. At least in most places.
@@pauld.b7129 it’s not that impossible, pipes are routinely dug up and replaced for maintenance, I don’t see why, going forward, there can’t be/aren’t new rules regulating what materials are acceptable for new pipes
@@0IIIIII ah yes this problem that has existed through decades in red and blue states/areas is clearly the Republicans fault. If you really think any of our political parties are good or better than the others I feel bad for you
@@alexalbrecht5768 the ideas of the right are what I stick with and some of the left, however both are radical at times and I've fallen into a conservative with exceptions category
It’s interesting what they decide to tell us imagine what they hide
Oh frick off. I'm more concerned with capitalistic greed and inhumanity of these companies than some childish imaginary "shadowy elite" peddled by idiots like Alex Jones.
If this is going on in America, just imagine the kind of stuff that’s in the water in China with all of those huge factories and plants.
And floods...
They will never know if there's an issue...
Literally worthless. Not even for agriculture. Humans can't drink it, animals can't drink it, industries can't use it. CCP literally needs to build hundreds of kilometers of aqueducts from the south to the north to pipe in enough fresh water to keep the cities alive.
No kidding and it’s only going to get worse
India is really bad too
Everything shipped in America.
We are going to see stories like this more and more in the future.
Definitely
Yeah but the contamination still there.
this is only the beginning. shits only going to hit the fan more
no kidding. wonder how long ago we should have been hearing about them but didn't.
The FUTURE is here and now. 😖
“You’re not suppose to consume 70 parts per trillion in an entire lifetime”
That is an insanely small amount
Guess we’re all fucked
It's more like - if you're exposed to a certain concentration of these chemicals then it increases your lifetime risk of developing cancer by a certain amount, typically something small like one in a million (I'm specifically referring to N-nitrosodimethylamine here). Repeated exposure or exposure to higher concentrations will, I believe, further increase that likelihood.
@@Rime_in_Retrograde exactly. just like how smoking 1 cigarette won’t give you cancer but smoking every day will greatly increase your risk. However, while smoking cigarettes is a choice, polluted water is a crime against humanity
The amount of parts per trillion doesn’t compound, though….
@@VestigeFinder agreed.
@@BZB2000 there's a reason why they are called forever chemicals. Watch the movie 'Dark waters'.
As usual, "industry interests" are being protected first and foremost.
Military interests are being protected. It was that military air base the caused most of the pollution.
industry runs government and dresses up for us. Its all a dog and pony show on the screen.
And some people wonder how they develope cancer that never smoked, they exercise faithfully and eat healthy and go vegan. SMDH!!!
eating healthy in america is still not healthy compare to the rest of the developed world. your healthy food in america still contains GMOs and other cancer causing products. nothing in america is really healthy.
I remember when they were called conspiracy theories... and crazies for believing in this.
No, I don't remember that. After the 50s bad things started turning up because of choices made for industry. They said they didn't know at the time.
@@truth4004 too bad
@@truth4004 that's BS and if you believe that. I'll cry.
What conspiracy was this? Obviously there will be chemicals in water. We just gotta know what they are, their effects, and deal with them.
Peppridge farm remembers
Ask who contamined your water. And then, start charging those responsible.
@Eat Shnitzel Yes, exactly!
Wouldn’t it be us ... then for not seeing and properly researching how corporations or government were taking advantage of society? Because of our ignorance....
THE ZIOMAFIA OLIGARCHY TERRORIST THAT OWNS THAT CHEMICAL ALSO OWNS THE WATER BOTTLE MAFIA TOO
Charges will never happen....too much political power and money to be made
Citizens United is when it all began to get worse.
“Had to force the EPA to”
Excuse me, we had to “force” the EPA to do something about PFAS chemicals?
That’s no different than having to force a parent to feed their own child. The heck??
That means the EPA is guilty.
No less guilty than a parent who doesn’t feed a baby and lets a baby starve unless the community forces that parent to feed their child 😡
And people thought I was crazy by doing everything with distilled water.
Same
I've been wanting to do that. Still a college student ATM
The issue is a lot of these pollutants don't filter out through distillation. They evaporate and condense right along with the water so distilling does nothing to solve the issue.
@@davidabest7195 oh, no… what can we do?
I was thinking about just drinking rain water, maybe no water at all
The most "developed" country on earth.
Not even close 🤣
China now is
No no no lmao. Most overrated country on earth
Lol says the Television that tells LIES to Your VISION 👀 👓 🤓 tell you this is 😂
The richest 3rd world country in the world.
Imagine having to be afraid of the water you drink because someone wanted to make extra money.
edit: (BIG ATTITUDES in the comment section) open at your own risk.
hope it catches up to you people, in a hard way. Too many of you are ignorant and selfish.
You don't have to imagine. What do you know about your water homie?
@@PipMane , you think your water is clean?
How soon we forget Flint, MI
Being afraid to drink the water? Sounds like a fear most people on earth have. Travel and see…
When we will realize our modern life has a heavy cost, we DONT have the wisdom yet to handle. This and MANY other cases prove that.
It's really cool to see we are going to leave behind very accurate records of how we killed ourselves and our home planet because everyone was too busy learning tik tok dances
They called it tik tok cause they knew it would be helping pushing the nuclear clock to 12oclock
🎼 Stop! Don’t touch me there. This is! My no-no square! 🎵
I mean it’s not like big corps aren’t to blame....
Imagine mars...
The planet will endure. Living organisms not so much
Us here in flint, Michigan still suffering as well.
And i dont hear nothin about it and im from michigan
I feel for you guys, awful!
When Andrew Yang was running for 2020 president, he said that bringing clean water to Flint, MI was one of the first things he was going to do as president. But nobody listened to him. People treated him as a joke. The media silenced him and he never became president or mayor of NYC. Yang was the ONLY candidate that even mentioned that Flint had a water crisis.
I don't see why people don't just get distillation apparatus...
And with Tucson they should be distilling all the water multiple times before filtering it.
I guess the main issues comes from this chemical in the pipes now.
But distillation removes everything typically
@@vidform That’s pretty cool, I didn’t know that. “They” want to keep us sick, unhealthy & ignorant & anyone who opposes those agendas will always be silenced
Military investigating themselves...everything should turn out fine. Don't worry
Surrreeee.
Mmmhmmmm
Closed loop.
"Nothing to see here!"
Yep It's like complaining to the mob about crime in your town. What crime?
I'm surprised your overlords at Disney allowed you to do this story.
You know they have to let some things “slip” through
Ohh no no no they have to have some explanation on our dependency on their pharmaceutical products 😎 #SnakeOilSaleman
Everything is dangerous now a days, you can’t take a step without risking death
With water becoming privatized, this is concerning.
That was my first thought. Perhaps the companies privatizing, can fund healthcare for all.
@@ElizabethinKansasCity they won’t
This is WHY water is becoming privatized. They already knew about the water poison when they made the water a profit source.
This is happening under EPA and government control.
Wait until we find out what’s really in our bottled water next 😭
where do you think bottled water comes from lol
Many brands of bottled water, are just filtered local tap water. (Dasani, Aquafina are some examples). Some brands do have their own mineral spring sources though (Poland Spring, Fiji, Perrier, San Pellegríno. The last two are naturally carbonated.)
@@joermnyc exactly this chemical is def in all of that as well
Drink only distilled water. It guarantees now toxins or excess minerals are in it
@@panama2468 Distillation is an industrial process so you could end up with byproducts of its own. And chemicals with boiling point close to that of water may survive the distillation process, it doesn't get rid of everything.
"I give my dog bottled water."
How do we know the bottlers are filtering it out? 0.o
I thought the same. “Ground” water, bottled in a factory until sold, sitting inside a hot delivery truck-deliveries to a hot warehouse, shipped again to the store in another hot delivery truck, then bought and sitting in hot car until I drink it in this 97 degree heat. SMH, We’re doomed on so many levels. Which one do we pick, will be at fault?
Not possible. PFA's chemicals are in the plastic used to store water, foods, preserves, and 90% of the crap we use; cell phones, lap tops, car dash boards. You name it. it's there. Forever.
@Gas Pack spring water comes from the ground. So depending on where this spring is located, there could be forever chemicals in there. Spring water should be clean, but I doubt it anymore.
Frankly, I don’t think we should be prioritizing house pets with quality water. I don’t believe bottled water is quality though.
@@Emily-bp7ol really ? Are they just house pets to you? Just some animal that deserve nothing but some cheap food and dirty water? My dog is literally my best friend. Every animal I have ever been lucky enough to have as a companion has always loved me and would protect me and my family with there life. The give you all the love and affection that no one else can and they do it no matter what. For people like you who think animals are just pets that deserve nothing more then some cheap food and dirty water I pray no animal ever has to suffer under your roof. My dog drinks the water I drink not from the tap and they eat good food like I eat because I love them and respect them.
This is what happens when you privatize everything for short term profits
This reminds me of Erin Brockovich, funny how nobody learned from that tragedy. I also love how the EPA said they were factoring in "industry interests"...just reminds me of the scene where Erin asks the lady how much her uterus is worth. Like seriously people, no amount of money is going to save you when you're dying of cancer in a hospital bed surrounded by no one because you were so greedy that you pushed everyone else away. God I hate people so much...
Me too me too. And i guess im going to hell for it. But i doubt Jesus LOVED EVIL.
Agreed. But everybody wants a job, and everybody wants their lifestyle. And most of those jobs and lifestyles are responsible to some degree, directly or indirectly, for some form of environmental toxicity.
That water is still contaminated till this day.
What and where do they come from? Can we at least stop using chemicals? Please start cleanup, pay as you go.
@@sharonloomis5264 plastics most likely
PFA’s or “ forever chemicals” some products that may contain pfa’s some grease resistant paper, fast food containers/wrappers, microwave popcorn bags, pizza boxes, & candy wrappers. Nonstick cookware. Stain resistant coating used on carpet, upholstery & other fabrics. Water resistant clothing. Cleaning products
Yes more clothing being made from these forever plastics.
Yep. The environmental firm I worked for had a visitor than talked about this being huge revenue in the future. Billions will be spent by companies trying to clean this up but without much results. We have a hard enough time trying to clean up the traditional chemicals, let alone a hydrophobic one. I don't know if it's possible. Still can't get fuel contamination cleaned up.
DUPONT and 3M company.
@@war1518 crazy how BIG 3M is they’re global
Do you have a source for this information?
This on top of generically modified food makes me really wonder the correlation to how so many people (atleast around me) seem to have stomach troubles that even GI doctors can't figure out.
look at how many cnacer causing chemicals you consume on a daily bases in america. there is a reason why the EU forbids american food being transported in to europe. all because of health concerns for the europeans.
Remember when during the Flint Crisis, both parties claimed to be outraged about the water quality.
This is the reason why people don't drink from the tap. Seriously water is a necessity, not a luxury.
Not according to the people that own our water. They’ve publicly said it’s not a right.
Bottled water has lax restrictions as well.
Yeah I love drinking microplastics in the morning.
Most bottled water comes from municipal supply!
I wish i can stop using plastic bottles, but i can't because of this
It is nice to see ABC doing real reporting on something.
I’m still waiting for cnn to do the same lol
I’m also waiting for fake Fox News to say something as well.
@@eduardoe4200 wrong
Correct
@@eduardoe4200 I suppose it's Trumps fault.
Government: "It's okay just be sure and get your vaccines because we care about saving human lives."
the People trust the government and their doctors. Guess what people, their only after you for your money when You get sick.
Just what we needed, another ticking timebomb. I'm surrounded by the conveniences of industrial life, but goddamn, I'm growing less and less convinced that it's been worth it.
“Doesn’t enforce a national standard for levels in tap water” yikes. Don’t be surprised if your town finds this in the water system
Ahhhhhh, water is over rated,....what is important is you getting jabbed. Hahahaha,....
@@macc1232 get distilled water with minerals added after the fact.
Distillation is the safest method
What states have forever chemicals in the water.
@@jing4945 probably all of them lol
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 rip
Scary to think that EPA is influenced by “industry interests”.
I haven't used tap for even cooking unless it's boiled b4 adding in food...but if not, I used bottled water...then there's the plastic bottle issues!
@@annettezaleski these substances can't be boiled out of your water
You mean owned by!
@@troypattillo4100 Thank You, I didn't even think of that...but makes sense though...I guess, we could say, "These aren't the chemicals your momma used to boil out!"
Government is not here to protect you and I. Just here to keep us in line and under control.
At this rate, every home is going to need Reverse Osmosis systems for drinking/cooking water.
The fact that “industry interest” is a factor in their decision making ability says it all, shame on you.
Really glad I decided not to bring children into this world. This place is madness.
Sadly that means the same are not reproducing, thus the madness will continue.
Same
@@matthew8153 IDIOCRACY 😳 #ELECTROLYTES
Same
Don't worry Africa will breed children in your sted
Great, I checked my local water quality report and it doesn’t test for these chemicals and I live next to a military base. Greeeeaaaat.
And that would be why they don’t test, cuz they know they’d have to do millions in upgrades to deal with it.
8:06 "The agency says it's moving quickly while balancing law, industry interests..."
Well gee, industry interests. Therein lies your problem. Why don't you take that part out? That would be a start.
I was just discussing this very issue with my 84 year old mother earlier this morning. I've just plunked down a small fortune for a water filtration system because North Carolina has 2 new strange chemicals in its water supply. Also, I truly believe it's a major mistake to not include enough money in the infrastructure bill to address the issues that threaten Americans' access to clean water across the country.
Same here. Small fortune to filter all water coming into my house and further filter drinking water. All it took was reading the fine print on my annual water report which advised people with cancer shouldn't drink from the tap.
Why do people still trust the government blindly after all these revelations.
The government? A private corporation made a decision to produce this stuff and sell it. Why do people still trust the profit motive to run society after these revelations?
@@need-to-know- Those corporations paid the government to keep hush hush and prevent slapping regulations it's stated in the video my guy. Though I agree.
@@need-to-know- AI?
@@sethjohnson1590 That’s not a complete sentence, bro.
@@nathanhedger1751 And yet these politicians that insist that the private sector and the for-profit interests are best for the people keep getting elected while politicians wanting to fund and strengthen regulatory agencies are shouted down as Communists and lose elections-guess what you end up having? A government full of people that insist on partnering with the private sector to resolve problems caused by the private sector.
I just can't anymore. This might be the last thing I can take.
Lord please, have mercy!
I literally FELT your comment 🙏🏾💕 It’s too much sometimes well ALL times now 😵💫🙏🏾
It isn’t the Lords doing, this is all man. Everything wrong with our world rn is ALL man.
Please pray for me
If only an all loving god wouldn't have allowed cancer causing chemicals to exist
@@DezaRay24 The Lord created man though. And reproductive practices. He created everything.
It's like we forget how important water is, absolutely pathetic.
Note: water treatment facility unable to detect this chemical, so what is the guaranties that bottled water plants of corporations would be able to do this?
Good point
Well. The logical solution here would be to make the chemical manufacturing companies pay for adequate filtration. But that won’t happen because 1, it would make way too much sense and we certainly can’t have that nowadays. Secondly, 3M, DuPont, Bayer/Monsanto, etc own our govt. They aren’t going to fine themselves.
This
It’s truly sad. We’re just numbers.
We don’t actually need most of these chemicals in the first place.
maybe if you guys stopped bailing them out we wouldn't have these life-threatening problems.
biggest solution it to just delete taxes across the board until we are represented fairly as taxpayers.
Yes, and now this Corporatocracy's mighty MIC will mitigate their toxic wake through Water Wars...
It'll cost ya, though! ...
We shouldn’t have to worry about drinking water.
I like how they use the word "safe amounts to drink" I don't want any amounts!! Crazy world we live in
I was raised in Florida. Back in 1989, there were cases of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) & Lymphomas (Hodgkin Disease) reported near Patrick Air Force Base and the surrounding areas/towns. We all drank filtered, bottled water, yet my dad drank right out of our tap. 4 months later, he was diagnosed with ALS, then passed away in his sleep 2 months later. 😞
I am one of them 🖐. Hi, pray all are doing well and not suffering. 🙏 ♥ The struggle is real. You're not alone 🫂👣👭
Where I live the tap water smells like straight up chemicals, sometimes it even has a bleach smell to it.
Same here
Lived in a place where a glass of tap water smelled like pond water. Were told it was safe, truth came out that it was contaminated by a local swamp. Now it smells like a swimming pool. Still told it's safe.
I can’t stand tap water makes me gag
My tap water is the same. I buy distilled water.
We used to have well water and it smelled exactly like rotten eggs due to the amount of sulfur, it was horrendous. Your comment gave me flash backs lol
Thanks, Monsanto. Time to RoundUp these toxic corporations.
Hate that round up crap. what wrong with dandelions They’re cheerful. They’re nutritious. They’re good for the soil
@Stephen Anthony Yeah over poisoning the earth.
General Strike!
Another first world “it’s not a problem till it’s starts effecting me” situation.
only in america.
I have always lived in the country and had my own well. When I bought this place over 30 years ago, we dug 325' to reach water. The underground spring I get my water from comes down out of the mountains. Actually, the spring branches after my place and goes right into , or near, the town I live near. I am a great grandmother now and I have all the parts I was born with and never even had a cancer scare. I believe that a great deal of the medical problems people have today is caused by the drinking water. How clean can they get it, really? I won't drink water from anyplace but mine. I have the best tasting water you will ever find!! Stop drinking city water, you will live longer. My Aunt lived in Tuscon for many years and she suffered with a few different kinds of cancer until it finally took her life. I feel bad for the people who fell victim to this tainted water, it really is very sad.
We have a well, also.
I’m just curious if you ever shock yours?
They require well tests when purchasing or refinancing a home with one & apparently they recommend shocking it before testing. It’s just not something we ever thought of doing.
Until, hearing this.
They are acting like PFAS is new. There is literally a river full of it In the northwestern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula. You aren’t allowed to fish in parts of it because of it.
Allowed
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“You’re supposed to trust...” How about, nobody.
In Massachusetts it’s proof that liberals are smarter than conservatives or “mod dur ates”
My mind tells me the same, regarding trust:)
Many known brands of bottled water are also not that safe either, ph testing showed more acidic than alkaline.
@@0IIIIII I'm sorry, but didn't Obama show up at Flint and say "What problem?". Get outta here with the only Republicans trash.
I don't even trust myself
You trust a crazy amount of systems everyday. But having the trust in your water company damaged is gonna reverberate for decades. Hopefully PFAS is regulated sooner rather than later and that trust can be repaired overtime through strict testing over time.
I understand some people don't have choice. But as a kid I was taught to never drink the tap water no matter what. It's heartbreaking to learn this as of right now.
Me too.
I worked for a municipal water department washing glassware. I learned a lot about what passes as “ok” is actual not ok at all. Always go with “real” bottled water. No more tap water if at all possible.
What's "real" bottled water
Creating nonstick cookware did this too with teflon being dumped into drinking water
I threw away all that cookware. It used to peel and I though I was poisoned. I looked it up and found out the toxin from tfal gets released when the pot gets heated above a certain amount. It’s breathed in.
It’s all the same thing really, +/- a chain of fluorinated carbon.. Teflon/Scotchgard/Gor-Tex/ almost any and all water and oil repellents, refrigerants etc.. It was made for tanks originally, if you can believe it or not. During WW2, they were looking for something to rust proof tanks. Out of that they discovered Teflon.. Sad really. The US allowed the industry to self regulate and self report.. Dumb actually.. DuPont spun the company “Chemours” off so that impending liability won’t fall back on DuPont..
All because health food freaks were terrified of fats and oils for a couple decades.
@Paleblood wow , what would you recommend using instead? This is scary
@@zackfrank8149 i use cast iron, carbon steel, stainless steel, and glass for all my cooking. Learning how to season, cook, and deglaze your pans/skillets is a great skill to have. Plus these cookwares last for generations if you treat it right, whereas nonstick cookware only lasts 1-2 years before it needs replacement
Another huge issue is all the Pharmaceutical drugs we flush that end up here. Those RO systems don't remove them. We literally are all on drugs.
True,very true. It's killing eco systems. Who do we sue? Rule: if you can't read the ingredients don't eat/drink it. Look at the subway fiasco good example of money over health. No accountability
Proverbs 29:2
2 "When the righteous are in Authority the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."
Having worked for Greater Cincinnati Water Works for many years I advise everyone to get a water report from their water company. Cincy even offered tours of their facilities where you could see how they filtered the water which was through the old, traditional sand/rock filtration, then carbon filters and finally UV which wasn't required at the time but was added since a huge amount of our water comes from the Ohio river. I imagine other water facilities offer tours and it's worth checking out. They can also test your water.
cities should be investing in the best state of the art equipment when it comes to necessities like drinking water.
That’s why it’s so important to update our infrastructure across the nation.
@@taritabonita22 sadly that's gonna require tax hikes or a mandatory 1-2 years in the army core of engineers straight out of high school to do so, both will be very unpopular
@@nerdlingeeksly5192 Yes I’m aware!
"Your supposed to trust the water company"....and the media, and the government too I guess.
then proceed to trust their favorite politician 💀
@@TheMissingDislikeButton it's the other politicians not mine...that's why we have so many incompetent leaders
I knew something was off…I just had a feeling to stay away from the tap years ago even while brushing teeth
@Truth Never Lies That's supposed to be good for your teeth isn't it?
@Truth Never Lies Good to know. Ok tell me what toothpaste and water to buy
@Truth Never Lies Interesting take. It's weird there's so much info out there. Like too little fluoride is bad but too much fluoride is also bad. Like almost any substance in life.
@Truth Never Lies Wow. That actually makes sense. Yeah I try not to drink coffee or redbull or monster. I feel sorry for the poor fools who drink monster energy. Unfortunately I know water has fluoride in it so I have to deal with that somehow.
@Truth Never Lies Yeah I agree. The fluoride thing im still going back and forth with because again misinformation. They only way to know would be if I got fluoride poisoning or something.
When beer is safer than your drinking water.
If its not one thing its another Lord have mercy.
It want be much longer that the Lord will be back here to earth to take us away after the tribulation is over and it’s coming faster than we ALL think it is too! Just look around at this very cruel world we’re all living in now!
@@johnsmith2598 Absolutely. They keep pushing the vaccine but not the word of God. It's crazy how our nation is based on "In God We Trust" and yet the only God I see that is being trusted and uplifted is the Enemy.
Seriously, its just constant badness
@@mjmj316
America was founded as secular country with freedom of religion
And freedom from religion
It wasn’t until the 1950’s that they put “in god we trust” on the dollar
Bibles and guns are the religion of the Christian American
Did you see all the Jesus Placards at the Capitol on Jan 6
No Christ like people were there bashing people with the American Flag and there to kill the Vice President and the speaker and anyone else
If christians want to be involved in politics then they should have to pay taxes like everyone else
The rules for all Americans should not be made by any religious sect
This is the reason I left the church
@@johnsmith2598
And look where all the cruelty is coming from
This is what happens when a certain party neutralizes the enforcement power of the EPA. Money has become more important than the health of its citizens. This disgraceful behavior continues in Flint.
why do I feel like Flint was a guinea pig for all this. Theres so much thats bigger going on here.
@@amberdodd9147 Profits have become more important than people.
@@charlescummings1128 Profits have always been more important than people for thousands of years.
@@the_beat_thief Thats is a pessimistic point of view.
@@charlescummings1128 Just because it's true doesn't make the statement pessimistic.
How the F is the EPA not required to do interviews 👿
This is crazy, I don't live in the USA and I doubt my country has proper water testing
As if bottled water is to be totally trusted. What makes it different from tap that we actually KNOW of?? 🤷🏾♂️
Nothing , where you think al that water comes from before it’s bottled?
Yup, a public municipality, altered with baking soda and other minerals for “flavoring”.
😆 nothing bud.
@@nobodyreally2340 true, and I couldn’t figure out why drinking it just made me thirstier. It’s just water...right...was I shocked when I read the label and discovered it had bicarbonate in it in elevated numbers above the daily limit.
Exactly what I was think. We have few alternatives. :(
@@brendafleet9815 what brand?
That's the core question of capitalism: which is more important - making money, or the safety of Americans? Answer: How much money we talking about?
lol
The thing about money there is none. These companies are just dipping into the Cesta Que Trust and charging people twice under statements instead of true bills.
Exactly! We have commoditized everything. PFAS can not be removed from the body and once it get in the ground it is impossible to remove...
@@abdulraheem415 What about the terrifying thought that it might be able to mix with evaporating water - that means it's EVERYWHERE. Oceans, rivers, lakes, fish, cows, corn, wheat, ... Who needs an asteroid to hit the Earth, when we have our own short-sightedness to wipe us out?
@@timmsmiithgm557 not sure about that but I'm from Flint Mi. And it was discovered in the mid to upper parts of the state 2 years ago mainly around airports. And I'd like to add that it even seeped into wells because a lot of upper Michigan past Bay City is rural...but no one can figure out who will pay for its removals....It is a HUGE problem because people moved out of the city thinking it was safe from crime and it was peaceful!
What kind of idiots allowed forever Chemicals in Rainwater
We have to blame the inventors, first of all. Can you picture them glowing, beaming with pride until the day they died, that their name will "forever go down in history". So much ego and vanity. In reality, their ideas were a death sentence to many species, as we'll see. I hate all of such pompous famous people who thought they were great and special. They look down from portraits, immemorialized in pictures. But the truth is something completely different. Imo, worst of them all is Descartes.
All people commented they dont drink tap water but all the food your eating is coming from the tap water like everything you put in your mouth…
Welp going back to drinking straight Alcohol.
Don't forget 100 proof alcohol is still only 50% alcohol. In the US.
@@redsable6119 I think 100% alcohol would kill you faster than any of those fire-fighting foams!
Alcohol = poison. Throw it out
@@yanmarle2864 Whatever gets me trashed faster bud! 😂
Water is used in the process to make alcohol, so you're still screwed. LOL
How do we know PFAS aren't in bottled water? There's spring water, purified water, distilled water, all kinds of water, but depending on where the water is sourced and whether the filters used are able to remove PFAS, then what's the difference? Most filtration is carbon based, but that doesn't remove those chemicals.
All bottled water state the source. Look it up. Check to see if the source is in a danger area. Obviously if there is an airport nearby...
They are in bottled water. People are les to believe bottled water is pure...that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Use reverse osmosis filters?
Exactly we are dammed if we do dammed if we dont they know whats going on population control
@@redsable6119 hahahaha. ozark springs has NO regulations. they police themselves and that's all i need to know!
Can anyone be surprised, knowing how Flint MI has been treated?
given the trend of humanity recently, i wouldnt be worried about PFAS
Lol!
U actually have a valid point lol!
Man can mess up an empty room.
Clean and safe water no longer exists. You can thank your policy makers for allowing corporations to do as they please...
as someone who drinks the filtered water from my fridge i think im gonna start ordering water
Get a reverse osmosis system. You'll save money in the long run.
And when we said it years ago yall told us to take off the tinfoil hats.... they've been doing this for decades.
I notice you didn't answer your own question: How can we protect ourselves from PFAS? Perhaps that is because the answer is, we can't.
Burn down the Dupont factories
Eat the rich.
Move far away from cities and to a property with it's own well.
@@JeffCaplan313 we need to slaughter the rich after what they’ve done
My family and I have been drinking DISTILLED water for as long as I can remember. NEVER tap water.
Your skin literally absorbs things. So unless you are washing in distilled water... Your body is still absorbing chemicals from water. 🙃
All of us wash our foods, cook with it, bath, wash clothes, swim, and etc. tap water all the time‼️ We get poison water into our body one way or another‼️😱🤢🤮🤒
@@chrisw9122 and? what are you gonna do? you're apart of it
distilled water is actually not good for you, it will actually leach nutrients out of your body because of the how pure it is (and lacking of ions)
@@khronos142 - Take a multi, you’ll be fine
im lost...what does the bottled water company do that municipal water companies dont? or are both contaminated?
Good question. I was wondering if it is still safe to drink bottled water.
@@Dakid015 I dont think it is....or it could all be propaganda to increase bottled water sales and to keep fear and instability amongst the people.
Anyone else somewhat reminded of the Victorian era where literally everything was poisonous? Due to capitalism and companies not caring about people’s health?
Zero relevance to this story. This was the national guard, a socialist organization.
Completely relevant to the story.
@@KMx108 accept this story is about the national guard who are not capitalist but government
"The Devil We Know" is a documentary that covers a lot of this and more.
That documentary left me so messed up. Like our poor kids stand no chance. Nothing will ever be done so long as everything is about money.
Any & Everything can be done... Apart from money. If you think it’s all about money then i should inform you that they’re a million steps ahead of you...
It’s far more sinister. Money is just a distraction, an illusion they’ve created to make us adapt the mouse on a wheel mindset, with that mindset they can focus on so much other sinister things, since we’re far too busy focused on living a fairytale lifestyle... If the whole U.S population stand together, put their pride aside, tuck in their egos, give up that self worship mindset, give up racism which was also created by “ THEM “ as another distraction & all other sorts of ridiculous thoughts... Best believe we can easily win & change everything... Until then, Yes, we’re definitely screwed... But a 300 million plus population can’t lose ‼️‼️‼️
That, and the plastic pollution catastrophe, are probably the greatest argument against capitalism. Any economic system that can be expected to support these disasters should be immediately out of the running, but we have our priorities mixed up and value our current lifestyles.
@@alecbader7433 capitalism can’t be held directly accountable for hyper consumerism. Individuals need to be accountable for their actions as well
@@alecbader7433 America has a rude awakening coming. Consumerism and over reliance on everything for everything
This world is fucked. What are we gonna do when are children or children’s children gotta deal with this crap. We need to do something now or it’s gonna be to late.
Lol children's children... LOL
It's too late already. There is not a future to worry about. Do whatever you want. Time is ahort.
Earth is demonic unhealthy infested
The germans of the 1940s tried
You can buy a better filter for your home that the city doesn't filter.
This is completely Bullsht!!! Someone needs to pay!!! This should be made illegal!!
You don't let your kids drink from the faucet. Great. Are they showering in it? Washing dishes in it? Washing clothes in it? 😒🤔