The Looming Water Crisis: Pollution, PFAS, and Health Concerns

Have you ever wondered how long drinkable fresh water will be enough for humanity if surface and groundwater resources are polluted at such a rate due to irresponsible behavior of people?

We are also the cause of global climate change, which has dramatically changed the natural cycle of water. Just think of the floods often seen on television (Dubai, for example) or the persistent drought that has been going on for years in Europe’s Mediterranean regions. Unfortunately, there are and will be victims of this process, and perhaps at the last minute we started the ‘green transition’ towards carbon neutrality. But what about the never-decomposing compounds (PFAS), drug residues, hormones, and seemingly untreatable plastic pollution that have been released into nature since the ’60s? This trouble was also caused by us humans, but there is no concept to solve the problem. Only now are we faced with the fact that more than 30% of Europe’s territory and waters are contaminated with PFAS, with industrially developed areas being the hardest hit.

Official EU site on the topic: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/european-zero-pollution-dashboards/indicators/treatment-of-drinking-water-to-remove-pfas-signal. Bad news: university researchers have found scientific evidence that they not only build into our bodies, causing various cancers as primary effects, but can even modify DNA, which has been shown to be related to neurological diseases in children (e.g. ADHD).

LeMonde’s analysis of adverse physiological effects: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/02/23/forever-chemicals-what-are-the-health-effects-of-pfas_6016910_8.html. Harmful compounds enter our bodies primarily through drinking water, since some utilities and bottling plants obtain water from contaminated surface and underground sources due to lack of other available sources. During processing, the industrial purification of water does not effectively remove 400 types of harmful PFAS compounds.

Standard water quality tests do not cover these harmful ingredients, and understandably, those who sell bottled water for a high price do not communicate this risk! We must admit that we are completely vulnerable in this situation. For those who feel affected, I would like to suggest an available solution to avoid drinking water from polluted sources: drink healthy, mineral-rich, and good-tasting drinking water produced by the Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) from an inexhaustible source of air https://wizzwell.com/shop/.