In Abington Massachusetts and almost every other place on planet Earth drinking water is a very regular activity. The ignorance of pollution within water is a privilege that most people don’t understand they have. The idea that you must accept that the simple act of drinking water is inherently polluted. The US government has limits to how much pollution is allowed in drinking water but that means that there is still pollutants in our drinking water. In my town we have received several notices of unsafe drinking water over the last few years as limits of PFAS change in Mass. Our drinking water is just over the limit of pollution but the reason we got notices recently isn’t because the levels have risen in the last few years but because the limits have changed. Why is the water not okay now when it was the day before they sent the notice? Why is any amount of pollution a safe amount of pollution? If we decided one day that any pollution is unacceptable then there is no viable drinking water in my area until they install new filters and improve our water treatment facility. For a while we would need to use bottled water which requires more pollution to be produced. Until then I will be drinking water with PFAS in it and waiting for us to figure our shit out. 

https://abingtonnews.org/2023/10/11/ahs-ap-bio-class-tests-for-pfas-in-abington-streams-ponds/