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How safe is Bay Area drinking water from chemicals? - San Francisco Chronicle

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How safe is Bay Area drinking water from chemicals?
The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park provides clean mountain water to San Francisco, helping avoid contamination from “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. Tracy Barbutes/Special to The Chronicle 2022

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month proposed the first federal limits on PFAS— manmade “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, organ damage and other health issues — in the nation’s drinking water.

The proposed regulation, which is not final, would require water systems to reduce levels of six of the most studied types of PFAS to the lowest levels that can be reliably measured with testing.

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