{"id":148678,"date":"2022-10-22T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/forever-chemicals-found-in-water-systems-serving-millions-gao"},"modified":"2022-10-22T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:22:32","slug":"forever-chemicals-found-in-water-systems-serving-millions-gao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/forever-chemicals-found-in-water-systems-serving-millions-gao","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Forever chemicals\u2019 found in water systems serving millions: GAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forever-chemicals-found-in-water-systems-serving-millions-gao.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cForever chemicals\u201d have been identified in water systems that serve about 9.5 million people in just six states, according to a new analysis of state data by a congressional watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-22-105135\">Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report<\/a> this week saying that the toxic chemicals had been found in at least 18 percent of water systems in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and Vermont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cForever chemicals\u201d have been identified in water systems that serve about 9.5 million people in just six states, according to a new analysis of state data by a congressional watchdog. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report this week saying that the toxic chemicals had been found in at least 18 percent of water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}