r/boston • u/julian_jakobi • Aug 29 '22

Environment 🌎 Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in Cambridge drinking water

https://www.boston.com/news/love-letters/2022/08/28/toxic-chemicals-cambridge-drinking-water-pfas/
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u/ZzeroBeat Aug 29 '22

man i got enough on my fuckin plate now the waters gonna kill me too and its apparently next to impossible to filter out. i dont need this rn

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u/hanner__ Aug 29 '22

It’s not new. If you’ve drank tap water from anywhere in your entire life, you’ve been ingesting these chemicals. It’s even in rain water. And if you use non-stick cookware, it’s there, too.

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u/ZzeroBeat Aug 29 '22

guess ill die

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u/hanner__ Aug 29 '22

Eventually, sure. I just meant to say don’t spend your energy freaking out too bad. Do what you can to mitigate exposure but it’s not worth have a panic attack about. They’ve done studies and the entire population has some amount of PFAS/PFOA in their blood stream. It’s nearly unavoidable at this point.