2023-11-12 11:10:00
For a year and a half, nearly 12,000 Hennuyers drank water contaminated with PFAS, a very toxic substance, revealed theat RTBF last week as part of the show #Investigation. This is a level five times higher than the tolerable dose set by the European Food Safety Authority.
Tap water contaminated by a very toxic substance in Wallonia: “These products are carcinogenic!”
In its report, the public channel also explains how these water analyzes carried out by the Walloon Water Company (SWDE) and commissioned by the Walloon Minister of the Environment were never communicated to citizens or even to the officials of the municipalities concerned. .
A lack of information which therefore prevented consumers from applying a precautionary principle allowing them to avoid drinking this water. Faced with the numerous questions and legitimate fears of the population, theThe Walloon Water Company (SWDE) has put online the first PFAS analyzes of water distributed in 177 zones of the 650 analyzed in Wallonia.
To learn more about the full scan report in your region, you must enter your address on this page then download the document in PDF format for details of water quality and in particular the quantity of PFAS, this family of ultratoxic compounds used in a multitude of products and uses.
Contamination of water with PFAS: ministers Maron, Van den Brandt, Morreale and Tellier were alerted by Flanders in March 2022
A toll-free number activated for the population
Concretely, the report for the area served by the Chièvres water tower today displays a sum of PFAS between 56 and 78 ng per liter over the last 12 months of analysis. In Ronquières, where a second opinion is underway, the report shows a rate of 106 while the standard which will be applied in 2026 will be 100 ng/l.
SWDE’s overall report showing the quality of your tap water ©swdeHere is an example of a comprehensive report on the water quality of an area, available on the SWDE website. ©SWDE “Our tap water is drinkable but it is not pure”: for this recognized expert in toxicology, two groups of the population should avoid it
Faced with this situation, Walloon Minister of the Environment Céline Tellier announced a series of measures and recommended that individuals in the municipalities of Chièvres, Leuze-en-Hainaut, Beloeil, Ath, Mons, Écaussinnes and Seneffe avoid consuming eggs and vegetables from local production (vegetable garden, domestic chickens), in order to remain vigilant.
A toll-free number (1718) is also activated to answer any questions that citizens may have about PFAS pollution in Wallonia.
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