The country can have a little carcinogens, as a treat.

Truth is current treatment techniques in most water plants will not be able to remove PFAS. The stricter limits will invariably cause some plants to disclose they are in violation not through any fault of thier own, but forever chems be forever chems and you can’t bleach and coagulate them away. They just are there. However flagging it would be justifications of getting the money to fix it. It’s just until then you have to disclose it on your Consumer Confidence Report.

You would need to completely rebuild plants to a more expensive type such as reverse osmosis plants. They would rather spend the money on Pissreal and global harassment than influx that kind of investment in infrastructure to unfuck crap-it-all-isms fuck ups…er freedoms. Then you have the increased costs of running a RO plant. In addition, changing the type of treatment is going to change the chemistry of the system, and caution needs to be made so there’s not another Flint type situation.

This is all a face saving, cheap ass carpet sweeping measure. Over a trillion a year to blowing the world up and can’t divert any of that to fixing our own shit. Lawsuits and meager settlements are already filed and paid so 3M isn’t going to fix the damage. Might buy some plants one or two humble projects but not anywhere near enough to refit them with the equipment and capacity to remove PFAS.

Maybe someone should offer the a glass of PFAS laden water and have him drink it to prove it’s safety.