PFAS and How to Remove the Silent Threat in Our Water

[@annunacky4463]

I worked at a chemical plant in the late 70’s. I was an environmental chemist. Based on what I saw and measured, I have been drinking filtered water ever since then. Even our plant water system and drinking fountains were contaminated one time after a piping repair mistake. I was told to keep it quiet. I didn’t. Superfund site now.

[@mikeholloway2625]

The money was never super funded you know? Nothing was cleaned up...

[@jones8610]

What kind of water do i drink for safest

[@mikeholloway2625]

@@jones8610 IDK...

[@annunacky4463]

@@jones8610 distilled water is safe, but take minerals to supplement.

[@jones8610]

@@annunacky4463 how about Poland spring water

[@labronco7511]

You should have mentioned the fact that PFAS accumulates in our bodies, and there is no way to remove it.

[@NancyBeegle]

Yes. Took a 6.5 hour tubing trip on the Au Sable July of last year. Got severely burned (first time in 63 years of being in the water in the sunlight). Still sick, lost lots of (not excess) weight, and feels like I'm burned all over still.

[@becky5937]

Wow thank you for the notice

[@JodBronson]

*OP = 100% !!!*

[@mikeholloway2625]

Really that is so true... the only way you can be PFAS free is if you were born more than 300 years ago. That was back in the day when 1 in 100,000 people contracted cancer. Yes. That little tid-bit of a finding is verifiable in a physicians clinical study. I will give you a hint. He was Italian.

[@NancyBeegle]

@@mikeholloway2625 Truth.. However, there's a huge difference between having some in you, and not suffering any ill effects and being older and totally toxic/very ill from being overloaded.

[@BEDWITHDAD]

Why should the burden to remove PFAS be placed on treatment plants, and not the manufacturers? Ultimately, you're asking rate payers to bare the cost burden instead of the manufacturers that create the problem in the first place. Please be more transparent in what can be done. Let's just remove PFAS from products altogether.

[@ampm8210]

Because it's easier and cheaper for the companies to point the blame and solution at the customer's. Look at what CocaCola did, went from glass and people avidly getting paid to recycle to plastic and pointing the blame at people not recycling. If it's more profitable then it will be done, politicians also get bribed and blackmailed making good progress difficult.

[@MM-le9en]

Exactly, this is what all this big contaminating companies are promoting while they are still getting money and dont pay all the bad results we get in our environment.

[@deborahschumann8286]

Except that the manufacturers of toxic materials have such a strong hold on all industry and hence our lawmakers. No matter what the mess is they create, we the tax payers get the bill. And in many cases, the taxpayer is also the victims of toxic poisoning….. isn’t capitalism great? The only things that get done are what produces a profit.

[@ampm8210]

@@deborahschumann8286 people only point out the negatives and never appreciate the positives in capitalism.

[@playonce4186]

its already polluted and cant be removed that easily it may takes decades cause its everywhere

[@cupwalker24.7]

What if you are Driller in the Environmental industry and drill for PFAS everyday and install Beautiful monitoring wells and pumping wells everyday all day and slop around in pfas .... how long do I have . . Just completely covered in pfas everyday ? Just wondering how many days I have .

[@ApriliaRacer14]

It’s in Aquas Film Forming Foam (AFFF) the foam mandated to be used in fighting aircraft accidents on all airports in United States. There have been major discharges on every airport for decades.

[@domsquaaa4323]

horrible

[@Deb-of2vq]

Very informative!

[@jimbob-jn6jz]

There is a movie about this called Dark Waters 2019.

[@NancyBeegle]

Excellent movie!

[@soccom8341576]

excellent movie

[@Petra999]

Actually it was just okay

[@andydutton455]

That's cool that you have a solution to pfas.

[@IndigenousRuuchuuUchinaa]

the US marine base in Okinawa just dumped PFOA contaminated water into the public drainage ignoring both Okinawa Prefectural and Japanese government a few days ago

[@ApriliaRacer14]

Wow! That is horrible. Locals going to protest?

[@IndigenousRuuchuuUchinaa]

@@ApriliaRacer14 Yes as always. But Japan wants the bases in Ryukyu islands that's why native Ryukyuans have been suffering for a long time.

[@livinghealthy7135]

Dangerous stuff, thank you for sharing this video.

[@sielorstout1213]

Does a Berkey water filter successfully remove the pfas?

[@jreshorts737]

Prob not, I’d recommend buying a countertop reverse osmosis system

[@dr123hall]

@@jreshorts737Absolutely not for long term high volume needs but PFAS is removed by activated carbon filters, as in a Berkey.

[@deniset3164]

Can Chlorella be used,? And how

[@york2175]

After the video just watched y'all about to blow up lol

[@JodBronson]

Nah, just blowing up slowly... It will take some+time, LMFAO.

[@enriquemercedes9519]

Can my Brita water filter remove the PFAS from my water?

[@JodBronson]

Your Brita Filter DOES NOT remove anything! It added "carbon" to MASK the taste and NOTHING ELSE !!!

[@Razzle_Dazzle9]

No

[@Uknown76]

No unfortunately

[@henrich2183]

As always - how much is dangerous? What dose is dangerous and what dose do people get?

[@Outdoorlife11]

Oh yeah are they trying to remove flouride too?

[@NancyBeegle]

🤣 Fat chance. Imo, they knew these were extremely dangerous before putting them in everything... even the toxic waste they call fluoride that's still added to us water and banned in other countries.

[@JodBronson]

OMG, in my town/city. Since the pan-dammit... They upgrade to even more chemicals in the water, like 2X. I got so sick from it. Now when I touch it... OMG, my hands and skin itches like crazy.

[@robthetinmang1455]

For firefighting where volatile organic compounds (VOC), like gasoline, are involved, it is still the best option. PFAS foam has a high surface tension that blocks the vapors from VOCs from evaporating. It's the vapors that burn, not the liquid. However, at the same time firefighters are preparing to deploy foam, they are also supposed to be taking measures to protect storm drains, waterways, and soil that might be contaminated. Sadly, many volunteer fire depts don't use it enough that containment steps are forgotten bc they get excited about using something new. In the East Palestine derailment, the local depts were quick to deploy foam, which woukd have been the right move if the chemicals were in puddles in the ground. However, they were pressurized, which breaks the surface tension of the foam and makes it ineffective. Also, with that big of a scene and waterways so close, the ideal situation before even using water, except to coll cars that weren't breached, woukd be to set up dyking barriers by the streams and call in heavy digging machinery and build dirt berms to better protect the forest and waterways from contamination. The berms can be built from a distance to prevent thermal injury from the fires and earth berms are easier to remove if contaminated than cleaning waterways.

[@mikegardens]

LA Water System is not even testing for PFAS and the EPA has not set any standards or enforcing detection and removal.

[@JaneDoe-tm2ex]

Ugh :(

[@RobertAnema]

www.epa.gov/pfas "On June 15, 2022, EPA released four drinking water health advisories for PFAS. EPA also announced that it is inviting states and territories to apply for $1 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law grant funding to address PFAS and other emerging contaminants in drinking water."

[@J-3-3-R-379]

hydroviv?

[@lizzyfrizzy4969]

Where are the thousands of tons of contaminated GAC going every year?

[@eugeneson0108]

Yes we needed to ask this.

[@JodBronson]

OMG, in my town/city. Since the pan-dammit... They upgrade to even more chemicals in the water, like 2X. I got so sick from it. Now when I touch it... OMG, my hands and skin itches like crazy.

[@hillslide]

Where did you find out about the extra chemicals

[@JodBronson]

@@hillslide - Check your City or call City Hall and they will give you all the info. Each year, they send a flyer to everyone in town to tell us about our water and what is in it.

[@tarmbruster1]

Landfills are loaded with PFAS.

[@SolarizeYourLife]

Teflon makes you a stronger/tougher person...

[@Interestingworld4567]

Lol

[@JodBronson]

YES... DIE-HARD for sure! LMFAO

[@user-hn1sw4cf7x]

Dupont, Nemours, Dow, Suez, BASF. They did this on purpose.

[@wobblybobengland]

Corporations rip through the US like a toxic Godzilla

[@0.0.0.0.1]

4:18 I thought this was shut down for not filtering to spec.

[@danieljurca2113]

I use detergent to clean my water

[@HiKimiko]

the audio is too low... the drip sound is ridiculously loud while the talking is soft.

[@2A1C1downURnext]

Distillation. No flourine compounds, chlorine, clarifiers, pharmaseuticals, insoluble minerals. Done.

[@dineshv7692]

Bringing water to its boiling point is the oldest and most effective way since it eliminates most microbes , but it cannot remove chemical toxins or impurities.

[@thatguyoverthere8355]

Done? Ummm...not so simple in this corporate world

[@myradotson757]

Distillation is not adequate if toxic chemicals have the same boiling point as water.

[@markcampbell7577]

They are also the primary causes of heart disease arteriosclerosis and fibrillation.. The plaque is a halogenated carbon or vinyl polymer in your heart.

[@Filip-ko8wl]

Well that may work to some extend, but the energy cost would be far to high. PFAS are a treat at a few parts per billion so you would need to vaporise a billion liters just to remove a few kg of PFAS. Even if you can recycle the heat to some extend the maintanace of any such oparation would be a real pain in the ass since it would need to be a batch system to remove the kristallised parts regularly

[@fuzzybojangles1141]

People think its funny I only drink distilled water

[@timway6839]

You might be missing out on some minerals

[@SurrogateActivities]

arguably worse than having some pfas in your body

[@vrty21]

Unless you make your own, the plastic bottle contain micro plastics.

[@tolu9838]

@@timway6839 get a multivitamin lol

[@ryannagel2512]

I don’t understand why people think distilled water is bad for you lmao.. it’s the purest water smh.. you can get mineral from food haha

[@letsbereal8653]

Why is financial cons even a factor of being chemically healthy

[@SolarizeYourLife]

Water plants wants to charge us an arm and leg for thier water...

[@enriquemercedes9519]

PFAS? Say that 10 times fast

[@JodBronson]

I did and I ended with PEE-SLOW. LMFAO

[@weareoursolution1977]

Just terrible