According to some experts, there's a gap between what's legal and what's safe when it comes to drinking water.
The Environment Protection Agency currently regulates 90 different contaminants in drinking water, from naturally occurring arsenic to hazardous lead, said Sarah Gibbens, a National Geographic environment writer.
"These are things that require a lot more research to prove they are harmful to human health and regulating them ultimately costs a lot of money, so the EPA has to do a lot of work to prove that these chemicals should be regulated in the first place," Gibbens said., also known as "forever chemicals," in drinking water.
The Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization that works to get toxic chemicals out of water,The nonprofit offers its own
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