{"id":167020,"date":"2023-07-06T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/nearly-half-of-the-tap-water-in-the-us-is-contaminated-with-forever-chemicals-government-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:22:46","slug":"nearly-half-of-the-tap-water-in-the-us-is-contaminated-with-forever-chemicals-government-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/nearly-half-of-the-tap-water-in-the-us-is-contaminated-with-forever-chemicals-government-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with \u2018forever chemicals,\u2019 government study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nearly-half-of-the-tap-water-in-the-us-is-contaminated-with-forever-chemicals-government-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with chemicals known as \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d according to a new study from the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren\u2019t able to test for all of these per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS, chemicals that are considered dangerous to human health. There are more than <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2020\/EM\/D0EM00291G\" target=\"_blank\">12,000 types<\/a> of PFAS, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/health\/topics\/agents\/pfc\/index.cfm#:~:text=More%20than%209%2C000%20PFAS%20have%20been%20identified.\" target=\"_blank\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>, but this study looked at only 32 of the compounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with chemicals known as \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d according to a new study from the US Geological Survey. The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren\u2019t able to test for all of these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167020","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}