<p style=””>More than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) away, the people of <a href=”https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7208933-Scituate-Water-Notification-9-10-2020.html” rel=”noopener noreferrer” target=”_blank”>Scituate, Massachusetts</a>, received a letter that same month cautioning about the same group of contaminants in their <a href=”https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/drinking-water”>drinking water</a>.</p>
<p>At issue wasn’t any of the well-known and widely feared water infiltrators such as <em>E. coli </em>or <a href=”https://ensia.com/features/drinking-water-contamination-pfas-health/” target=”_blank”>per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)</a>. The culprit chemicals tainting taps from <a href=”https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/environment/2016/05/31/elevated-disinfection-byproducts-taint-cocoa-water/85184636/”…
