{"id":195955,"date":"2024-09-09T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/new-filtration-system-removes-forever-chemicals-from-water"},"modified":"2024-09-09T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T22:24:07","slug":"new-filtration-system-removes-forever-chemicals-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/new-filtration-system-removes-forever-chemicals-from-water","title":{"rendered":"New filtration system removes \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 from water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-filtration-system-removes-forever-chemicals-from-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough filtration system developed by MIT researchers offers hope for removing harmful \u201cforever chemicals\u201d \u2014 dangerous pollutants that have plagued water supplies globally for decades.<\/p>\n<p>These long-lasting pollutants, known as PFAS, persist in the environment and have contaminated water sources worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that 98% of people tested had detectable levels of PFAS in their bloodstream, highlighting the severity of the contamination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough filtration system developed by MIT researchers offers hope for removing harmful \u201cforever chemicals\u201d \u2014 dangerous pollutants that have plagued water supplies globally for decades. These long-lasting pollutants, known as PFAS, persist in the environment and have contaminated water sources worldwide. A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that 98% [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195955","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}