‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

by itstrdt

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  1. **I’m posting this here because the EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg plays a key role in this story. And because many of these villages are more or less considered suburbs of the city of Basel.**

  3. it’s fucked up that they issued an alert only for “vulnerable” people. When I saw the alert at the airport I imagined a (mild) microbiological issue, but PFAS bioaccumulate leading to chronic conditions, not acute. How tf is that not a problem for “not vulnerable” categories??

  5. In a decade or two we will learn that switzerland was not in any better situation.

  6. Yes, it’s a warning for the rest of Europe. And voters need to remind government it is responsible for dealing with the water supply – it is not supposed to “privatize” the issue and make the most vulnerable individual citizens deal with it in some way (mostly by guessing bottled water is fine or by running their own RO filtration).

    This is not a sudden disaster and even then it could be argued government should have prepared something at least.

  7. Great topic! I recently started researching about it. There is an interactive [map](https://foreverpollution.eu/map/), if you scroll a bit. It’s terrifying to see how many sources of pfas are everywhere, and those are only known so far. So there are more that are still undiscovered.

    Also, [link](https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=pfas%20veritasium&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9d143778,vid:SC2eSujzrUY,st:0) to Veritasium documentary on the same topic.

  8. And here we are again. PFAS are also called forever chemicals… You may guess why… Once it is out there in the soil and drinking water, it’s pretty much impossible to remove. The funny part is, Euroairport was perfectly compliant with the law by using PFAS as firefighting foam…. and here we are now. Everyone in that region suffers from the consequences of PFAS, it can’t be removed, and there’s nobody (legally speaking) that is responsible and liable for this contamination… Yikes.

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