Clean Drinking Water for The Wall Street Journal

We traveled to Wisconsin to photograph this story about forever chemicals in drinking water. If anything it reminded us that clean drinking water is easy to take for granted for those of us who have it but unfortunately for many having access to it is a completely different story.

Some lawyers have said the settlements won’t come close to paying the full cost of PFAS treatment, pointing to a study from the American Water Works Association that estimated the nationwide capital costs at $47 billion. The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies has said treating drinking water could cost up to $6 billion annually.

Read the Wall Street Journal story here.

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