2023-11-14 08:23:05
According to an RTBF investigation broadcast Wednesday evening, analyzes of distribution water in Chièvres showed that some 12,000 inhabitants of the region consumed water contaminated with Pfas exceeding 5 times the tolerable dose set by the European Health Authority. food safety.
Faced with this observation, Walloon Minister of the Environment Céline Tellier (Ecolo) was heard in committee this Tuesday morning in the Walloon Parliament in order to provide further explanations on the pollution of drinking water in Wallonia.
The head of the Engagés group, François Desquesnes, begins by already aligning two points which will be crucial in the day’s debates. Why were the populations affected by excess concentrations of Pfas in their drinking water not warned? And why were emergency measures not taken to prevent the public from drinking the “contaminated” water?
For his part, PTB deputy Jori Dupont cites the letter from a resident of Chièvres. Her daughter’s blood contains traces of Pfas higher than health recommendations. It calls for “the distribution of truly drinkable water”, “systematic tests on residents”, “an analysis of the soils” which serve as vegetable gardens, “medical monitoring and care for residents in the event of a health problem” and that transparency applies to “polluters, distributors and political representatives”.
Green like the minister, the deputy Christophe Clersy outlines a first element of defense of Tellier: it was, he told the Walloon Water Company to inform the population. “The SWDE did not communicate the results of the analyzes for almost a year and a half. What are the problems in the information transmission chain? Who informed who and when? This will be one of the central questions that Céline Tellier will have to answer.
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