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I was curious and looked up something for Germany: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/2546/publikationen/uba_sp_pfas_web_0.pdf https://ww

I was curious and looked up something for Germany: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/2546/publikationen/uba_sp_pfas_web_0.pdf https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/25... (German) Seems to be getting better though if you look at the graph on page 16.

Tarsul 5y ago
So we have a regulation since October of 2020 [!] in the EU that says that water distributors ("Wasserversorger") have to check how much PFAS is in the water and cope with it if it's too much. This reminds me that I had a notice from my landlord at the start of corona that I shouldn't use the shower because they noticed that the threshold of legionella in the water was a little too high (which was especially annoying because falling ill with Legionnaires' disease would mean similar symptoms to covid-19).
- lnsru 5y ago
  Your landlord should be reported and get nice visit from local Gesundheitsamt. It’s no big deal to prepare water with higher temperature and avoid this issue.
  - Enginerrrd 5y ago
    That's not necessarily true. It can be non-trivial to get the heat specification right at all end points in the distribution pipeline.
    - lnsru 5y ago
      Ok. Add nasty chemicals then. I think, even cheap chlorine can do the job. In my case higher temperature was enough. I rented a flat that was staying empty for long time and had these problems. Increasing temperature of the water and letting it run for 5 minutes solved it.
freeflight 5y ago
Interesting how that report lists all kinds of PFAS-Hotspots except for those created by US military installations [0] [1]. [0] https://www.civilianexposure.org/the-u-s-military-is-poisoning-germany/ https://www.civilianexposure.org/the-u-s-military-is-poisoni... [1] https://www.stripes.com/news/us-army-in-ansbach-concealing-details-about-groundwater-contamination-german-officials-say-1.601163 https://www.stripes.com/news/us-army-in-ansbach-concealing-d...

Tarsul 5y ago

So we have a regulation since October of 2020 [!] in the EU that says that water distributors ("Wasserversorger") have to check how much PFAS is in the water and cope with it if it's too much. This reminds me that I had a notice from my landlord at the start of corona that I shouldn't use the shower because they noticed that the threshold of legionella in the water was a little too high (which was especially annoying because falling ill with Legionnaires' disease would mean similar symptoms to covid-19).

lnsru 5y ago
Your landlord should be reported and get nice visit from local Gesundheitsamt. It’s no big deal to prepare water with higher temperature and avoid this issue.
- Enginerrrd 5y ago
  That's not necessarily true. It can be non-trivial to get the heat specification right at all end points in the distribution pipeline.
  - lnsru 5y ago
    Ok. Add nasty chemicals then. I think, even cheap chlorine can do the job. In my case higher temperature was enough. I rented a flat that was staying empty for long time and had these problems. Increasing temperature of the water and letting it run for 5 minutes solved it.

freeflight 5y ago

Interesting how that report lists all kinds of PFAS-Hotspots except for those created by US military installations [0] [1]. [0] https://www.civilianexposure.org/the-u-s-military-is-poisoning-germany/ https://www.civilianexposure.org/the-u-s-military-is-poisoni... [1] https://www.stripes.com/news/us-army-in-ansbach-concealing-details-about-groundwater-contamination-german-officials-say-1.601163 https://www.stripes.com/news/us-army-in-ansbach-concealing-d...