In celebration of the 30th anniversary of World Water Day, Food & Water Watch is growing our campaigns to ensure clean, affordable water for all.
One major component of protecting our water is regulating PFAS — the toxic lab-made "forever chemicals" found in almost everything from food packing to non-stick pans. PFAS is a major polluter of our drinking water — and just last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed enforceable limits on six types of PFAS in drinking water!
Food & Water Watch has been calling for limits to PFAS in drinking water for years. While these rules will lay the groundwork for safer drinking water, they don’t go far enough. More extensive regulations are needed.
Corporate polluters have known for decades that PFAS chemicals are toxic, and research has made it clear that no amount of PFAS is safe. More and more studies are uncovering PFAS’s health risks, including cancers, and immune system and reproductive system harm. In order to protect public health, they must be held accountable for cleaning up their pollution and complying with the new limits on PFAS.
The same corporations responsible for contaminating our water with PFAS are already crying foul, and they’ll be doing everything possible to make sure EPA’s proposed limits are not finalized. We can’t allow this to happen.
PFAS limits are only the first step. Communities will need more federal support to comply with these public health standards. That’s why this year, we’ll also be working with our allies in Congress to pass the WATER Act — critical legislation that would provide a permanent source of federal funding for our public water infrastructure to ensure safe and clean water for all.
PFAS can be found in almost every drinking water source from coast to coast. That’s why communities on the frontlines of the toxic PFAS crisis have called for federal action to protect drinking water for decades — since at least the late 1990s. Setting an enforceable limit on PFAS in drinking water is long overdue.
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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