How to Get PFAS Out of Your Drinking Water

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Barbara Moran: We should keep the problems that we've created here on our polluted planet. A brand new water treatment facility in Mansfield filters PFAS known as forever chemicals out of the drinking water by sending it through a massive carbon filtration system. Barb says all this regulation does not help people with private wells which are actually a huge percentage of people especially in rural areas. Back with Barb in a minute on Today Explained.

The chemical manufacturer 3M will pay $10 billion to settle claims it contaminated drinking water with “forever chemicals.” Good thing we already spoke with Barbara Moran, WBUR’s climate and environmental correspondent, who explained these non-stick chemicals that stick around forever.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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