A water provider in Alabama advised over 100,000 customers on Thursday not to drink tap water due to potentially hazardous levels of chemical contaminants that have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The warning comes after the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a health advisory on May 19 that the chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS could be harmful to humans at lower levels than previously thought. The water authority is currently designing a temporary filter that is expected to be completed in September and plans to construct a permanent filter that is expected to be completed in 2019. We look at the chemical contamination in Alabama’s drinking water on the Lip News with Margaret Howell and Jo Ankier.
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