PFAS
Water Europe: Paper to Tackle PFAS
Water Europe has unveiled a new Position Paper on PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals,” to address the urgent need for clarity and action on one of Europe’s most pressing environmental challenges. ...
Australia: Blue Mountains’ PFAS water
More than 40,000 Blue Mountains residents in Australia have been drinking water contaminated with harmful PFAS chemicals. The Environmental Defenders Office EDO, the largest environmental legal centre...
French drinking water with pesticides?
A molecule of the endocrine disruptor pesticide Flufenacet, used mainly for treating cereal crops, massively contaminates water resources in France. On September 27, the European Food Safety Authority...
Water contamination? What to do?
PFAS, lead, arsenic, pesticide metabolites… Every day we are warned about the contamination of our drinking water. How serious is the situation and what can we do about it? First of all, it is i...
EU drags its feet on water pollution
It’s two years since the European Commission published its proposal to update the lists of EU priority pollutants that should be monitored and regulated in European Union’s waters. With a...
Love for bottled water and PFAS
New research shows that almost all bottled water contains toxic PFAS chemicals. In a new study, led by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and Southern University of Science and Te...
EPA’s PFAS rule under threat
Several unexpected plaintiffs are behind a legal challenge aiming to kill the US Environmental Protection Agency’s groundbreaking new drinking water limits for highly toxic PFAS: the US’s water utilit...
Forever Chemical in European water
Drinking water in Paris and other European cities is contaminated with an unmonitored ‘forever chemical’, as all European media report. Traces of TFA, an unregulated PFAS, have been detect...