[HN Gopher] EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Ta...
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       EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water
        
       Author : igonvalue
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2024-04-10 22:37 UTC (22 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | reducesuffering wrote:
       | "Tap water is perfectly fine" people threw a lot of shade at
       | people who only drink bottled water, but both should be using
       | Reverse Osmosis filtration right now. Think of it as verifying
       | the response you got from the API is correct...
        
         | wouldbecouldbe wrote:
         | Yeah the plastic bottles are also not great:
         | https://time.com/6553165/microplastics-in-bottled-water-stud...
         | 
         | Just sad we made such a mess.
        
         | whyenot wrote:
         | It really does depend on what your water source is and the
         | pipes from there to your tap. For example, the Hetch Hetchy
         | water that supplies San Francisco and some other parts of the
         | Bay Area is very pure. Reverse osmosis is not going to remove
         | much of anything. Davis water, or San Jose water, well, that's
         | a little different.
         | 
         | The other thing about RO water systems is that they are not
         | very efficient. For every gallon of pure(-ish) water that a
         | home system generates, it typically has to throw away 5 gallons
         | of salty water.
        
         | perryh2 wrote:
         | I've been using the Waterdrop G3 system in my kitchen and it's
         | been great. https://www.amazon.com/Waterdrop-Reverse-
         | Filtration-Reductio...
        
       | semicolon_storm wrote:
       | No paywall:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20240410092221/https://www.nytim...
        
       | candiddevmike wrote:
       | Without any curtailing of their usage, aren't we just shifting
       | costs to taxpayers?
        
       | sp332 wrote:
       | Looks like most of the people saying it's too expensive are
       | talking about filtering the stuff out of water at or near the
       | point of use. What's the cost to reduce the amount of these
       | chemicals getting into the water in the first place?
        
         | dudus wrote:
         | [delayed]
        
       | thallium205 wrote:
       | Tap water is safe and effective.
        
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