{"id":247297,"date":"2024-03-20T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/best-of-earth911-podcast-avoiding-pfas-and-other-water-contaminants\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T11:41:44","slug":"best-of-earth911-podcast-avoiding-pfas-and-other-water-contaminants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/best-of-earth911-podcast-avoiding-pfas-and-other-water-contaminants\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Earth911 Podcast: Avoiding PFAS and Other Water Contaminants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=57734565&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=left&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-download=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drinking water is at risk of becoming scarce in the face of climate change. More than 50% of the nation has experienced drought since 2000. Rich \u201cRaz\u201d Razgaitis, CEO of Bluewater North America, a water purification company, joins the conversation to discuss the rising incidence in tap water of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS, the forever chemicals used in everything from the lining of fast food containers and firefighting foams to cosmetics and waterproof clothing. A recent United States Geological Survey study found that as much as 45% of U.S. tap water is contaminated with PFAS. Rich last joined us in early 2022, before the company he co-founded, FloWater, was acquired by Bluewater.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_356712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356712\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-356712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center>Rich Razgaitis, CEO of Bluewater US, is our guest on <i>Sustainability In Your Ear<\/i>.<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Water filtering, use, and reuse will become a more prominent feature of daily life in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\/podcast\/earth911-podcast-avoiding-pfas-and-other-water-contaminants\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at earth911.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking water is at risk of becoming scarce in the face of climate change. More than 50% of the nation has experienced drought since 2000. Rich \u201cRaz\u201d Razgaitis, CEO of Bluewater North America, a water purification company, joins the conversation to discuss the rising incidence in tap water of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":247298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best of Earth911 Podcast: Avoiding PFAS and Other Water Contaminants - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\/podcast\/earth911-podcast-avoiding-pfas-and-other-water-contaminants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best of Earth911 Podcast: Avoiding PFAS and Other Water Contaminants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Drinking water is at risk of becoming scarce in the face of climate change. 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