Variants of the chemical PFAS, nicknamed the 'forever chemical' because it does not break down once released into the environment, found in drinking water systems that serve about 7.5 million California residents, new report says.
A potentially harmful chemical has been found in drinking water systems that serve about 7.5 million California residents, according to a report by a nonprofit environmental organization.
All of the findings in the water sources from the California systems exceeded 1 part per trillion , which is the safe level recommended by the independent studies endorsed by EWG, according to the report. More than 40% of the systems contained at least one sample with a level of total PFAS over 70 ppt.
The testing has been done every year since 2013, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered nationwide sampling for PFAS. While PFAS has contaminated communities all over the country, the"crisis has been under the radar in California" until now, Tasha Stoiber, a senior scientist at EWG and the lead author of the report, said in a statement to ABC News.Nationwide, PFAS has been found in more than 800 communities, military bases, airports and industrial sites, but the EPA has not set a national legal limit for PFAS in drinking water supplies, the report states.
"PFAS are used in hundreds of everyday consumer products and commercial applications," she said."Decades of heavy use and unregulated production have resulted in contamination of water, soil and the blood of people and animals in the farthest corners of the world."
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