Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from known sources

Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan Bautista, California, three years ago. Escaping city life and growing her own food was a dream come true for the 52-year-old. Then Valle began to suspect water from her well was making her sick.

“Even if everything is organic, it doesn’t matter, if the water underground is not clean,” Valle said.

This year, researchers found worrisome levels of chemicals called PFAS in her well water. Exposure to PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds, has been linked to health problems including cancer, decreased response to vaccines, and low birth weight, according to a federally funded report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Valle worries that eating food from her farm and drinking the water, found also to contain arsenic, are to blame for health issues she’s experienced recently.

The researchers suspect the toxic chemicals could have made their way into Valle’s water through nearby agricultural operations, which may have used PFAS-laced fertilizers made from dried sludge from wastewater treatment plants, or pesticides found to contain the compounds.

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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from known sources

Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan Bautista,

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[1LoverofGod]

These "forever chemicals" is what made me stop drinking tap water years ago.
I drank bottled drinking water for a few years and then it occurred to me that all it was is tap water run through filters and then it's bottled.

I listened to a program that was addressing these forever chemicals and he suggested that not drinking tap water is better but explained how running tap water through filters doesn't remove all the chemicals.
And to add, he said that even showering with tap water would likely enter our bodies through our pores when the heated water from the shower causes the pores to open.
Oh well I began to shower with as much cold water as I could stand to keep my pores from opening.
He then suggested when using water in cooking it's better to use Distilled water because that water goes through a different filtration system that is more effective in removing chemicals.
To drink water I changed to using Spring water because it's not the same recycled filtered water that is typically used for bottling water and it comes from natural springs in the mountains.
It's more expensive than regular drinking water but as it's common, anything that is better for our health is going to be more costly but for me it's worth it because those forever chemicals can cause serious health problems.
California is really bad about providing good water sources for drinking.
California has talked about recycling sewage water through filters so people can drink it. That's too disgusting for me to even consider to drink filtered sewage water
Gross

 

[Tall Timbers]

You test your water source BEFORE you buy a property...

 

[mattfivefour]

Andrea and I have not drunk tap water in years. And we won't drink filtered water either. We only drink bottled (BPA-free) mountain spring water. Ice Mountain and Glacier Mist are our favorites.

 

[Hol]

nearby agricultural operations, which may have used PFAS-laced fertilizers made from dried sludge from wastewater treatment plants,

Several years ago I nearly purchased a dump truck load of composted solid waste to fertilize 5-acres of my land. The land is on an Indian rez that been allotted to my grandmother. There were certain wild plants growing that are extremely rare. My parents raised wheat and hay several years, and several years it lie fallow. When they gave me part of the land that I wanted to raise a crop on I barely got stopped from doing that by a cousin who lives on adjacent property. He really understood how to best protect that soil.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

You test your water source BEFORE you buy a property...

The issue can also arise after one buys the property.
Our rural Missouri property had really good water when we bought it. The sellers, the VA inspection, and we all had the well and tap water tested before the sale.
Several years later, they did some blasting many miles away when they built a new bridge and rerouted the Interstate. After the blasting, the water had lots of sediment in it, and it never recovered The water was still safe to drink, but the sediment seriously degraded the enjoyability . . . The blasting also damaged some people's foundations and walls, and some farmers had issues with well-supplied irrigation systems.