Everybody in Australia is exposed to PFAS. Experts say it’s time we know which products are contaminating our blood and homes.
Independent tests have linked PFAS contamination in the Blue Mountains to the site of a 1992 petrol tanker crash.
The environmental lawyer reluctantly agreed to help Hollywood for one reason only.
The upper house inquiry will examine the presence of cancer-linked chemicals in drinking water following the closure of dams where PFAS were found.
Hours after the Herald published revelations of high levels of “forever chemicals” at a dam this week,NSW Health moved to get all water utilities to screen for PFAS.
Medlow Dam in the Blue Mountains may be shut for a long period and water pumped in from Oberon after high levels of cancer-linked chemicals were found in the water.
Blue Mountains residents have expressed shock and outrage after the closure of a dam which feeds into the water supply of 50,000 people.
For years,cancer-linked substances have contaminated Australian homes,products and drinking water. Now a new inquiry is promising answers.
The industry is moving to reassure Australian consumers,who are among the most enthusiastic drinkers of bottled water in the world.
The chemicals,which the US has found are likely to cause cancer,have been found in the drinking water of up to 1.8 million Australians. So how do you strain them out?
Many Australians were nurtured on the belief their drinking water was the world’s best,but it now emerges we’ve been drinking tap water turned toxic by so-called forever chemicals and authorities.