Sydney Water found Forever Chemicals (PFOS PFHxS and PFOA) in 10 water filtration plants.
Last night, the Sydney Morning Herald and Channel 9 reported the closure of Medlow Dam because it had contaminated the water supply of 41,000 Sydney residents. Levels found in the plant were 300 times higher than those of Warragamba Dam, Sydney’s primary drinking water source.
While Sydney Water’s test results are lower than < 0.0001 and are below the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines.
The one question no one seems to be asking is how quickly the human body secrets PFOS, PFHxS and PFOA chemicals.
They are not called Forever Chemicals without a good reason.
- PFOS has a half-life of approximately 3.4-5.4 years in humans.
- PFHxS has an even longer half-life of about 5.3 years.
- PFOA has a half-life of around 2.7-3.8 years.
It’s crucial to note that the body takes several years to eliminate just half of these chemicals.
Excretion Mechanisms
The body primarily eliminates these chemicals through urine, with some additional excretion pathways such as [urine menstruation breast milk].
The human body retains these chemicals, and PFOS, PFHxS, or PFOA levels increase when we drink Sydney Water.
We measure these chemicals in our dams, not the receptors who drink the poison daily. We need to start measuring the levels of PFOS, PFHxS, and PFOA in the bodies of the people drinking this water because the levels are building up to a point where health will be compromised.
If you haven’t watched the movie Dark Waters, I suggest you do so. It may change your perspective of things.
3M settles out of court for $12.8 billion to avoid judgment on the claim they have poisoned 98% of the world’s population with Forever Chemicals.
Dupont, who purchased their Forever Chemicals from 3M, settled for US$1.185 or AU$1.74 billion for allowing these chemicals to poison the water and affect the health of thousands of people. Recently,
The Sydney Morning Herald published a story about two sisters from the south coast who both developed one-in-a-million brain tumours because of Forever Chemical.