{"id":1121390,"date":"2023-07-06T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=c71382d9f782cc5620f27916e252c35e"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T16:37:22","slug":"at-least-45-percent-of-us-tap-water-contaminated-with-pfas-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/06\/at-least-45-percent-of-us-tap-water-contaminated-with-pfas-forever-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 45 Percent of US Tap Water Contaminated With PFAS \u201cForever Chemicals\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced on Wednesday that at least 45 percent of tap water nationwide is likely contaminated with one or more type of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, a family of harmful &ldquo;forever chemicals&rdquo; that do not break down in the environment and can now be widely detected in water supplies and virtually all of our bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/at-least-45-percent-of-us-tap-water-contaminated-with-pfas-forever-chemicals\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the scale of contamination in local water systems and private wells outpaces detection and cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,4,14683,686,1573,1,1825,30817],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121513,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121390\/revisions\/1121513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}