Utilities from South Florida to upstate New York have warned customers that they could see significant price increases after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated that they remove the substances, which have been linked to a number of cancers and other diseases, from their systems.
Last month, the EPA said it will require utilities whose water systems contain high levels of six types of PFAS to remove them from the water.
PFAS, which stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of thousands of chemicals that have been used to make a variety of nonstick and waterproof products and firefighting foam.
The substances have also become ubiquitous in the environment, due in part to the fact that they tend to persist for a long time instead of breaking down.
Exposure to these so-called forever chemicals has been linked to increased risks of prostate, kidney and testicular cancers, weakened immune systems, high cholesterol, and developmental issues in children.
Now, for the first time, utilities around the nation will be required to get them out of their drinking water to prevent customers’ exposure. But that will come at a price.
Conclusion
If you hunt a teaspoon of molecules in an Olympic swimming pool, then the molecules you are hunting has to have a value above diamonds, otherwise the water suppliers have two options, one to raise the prize for water or change way of doing it. The Oaktree has a process that by coincident destroy PFAS, and that is according to us the only way forward when it comes to destroy molecules wich such a low concentration as PFAS has in our drinking water systems.
