{"id":9061,"date":"2021-01-16T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3117969\/nearly-100-million-chinese-people-supplied-drinking-water"},"modified":"2021-01-16T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:04:05","slug":"nearly-100-million-chinese-people-supplied-drinking-water-with-unsafe-levels-of-toxic-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/nearly-100-million-chinese-people-supplied-drinking-water-with-unsafe-levels-of-toxic-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 million Chinese people supplied drinking water with \u2018unsafe\u2019 levels of toxic chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"Drinking water provided to nearly 100 million people in China has levels of toxic chemicals that exceed safe limits, researchers have found.A team from Tsinghua University monitored the levels of per and polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS) \u2013 man-made chemicals used in everything from fabrics to pesticides \u2013 using data from previous studies.By analysing data from 526 drinking water samples across 66 cities with a total population of 450 million, the study found that the concentration of PFAS in more than 20\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3117969\/nearly-100-million-chinese-people-supplied-drinking-water\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking water provided to nearly 100 million people in China has levels of toxic chemicals that exceed safe limits, researchers have found.A team from Tsinghua University monitored the levels of per and polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS) \u2013 man-made chemicals use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061"}],"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\/910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9062,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}