As per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) discoveries increase across the country, water utilities, industry organizations, state regulators, and the EPA are struggling to publicly communicate new findings in drinking water, wastewater discharges, and biosolids. And these discoveries are going to exponentially increase in the coming years. The EPA’s Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) will require most water utilities across the country to test for 29 different PFAS compounds starting in 2023. Make no mistake, obtaining this data is absolutely necessary to our industry as we play catch up with the decades-long damage to our source waters. However, as we look for more PFAS, there is still so much we don’t know about the health and environmental impacts of the vast majority of these chemicals.

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