A Teeny Tiny Yet Frightening Pollution Problem

"The California State Water Resources Control Board has unanimously approved a policy handbook for testing water supplies for microplastics, after years of research involving more than two-dozen laboratories. "

"The most commonly used technologies employed by many water treatment systems remove most of the particles from drinking water, according to research conducted in Canada and in Asia.

But again, we don’t have data on the amount of microplastics contaminating drinking water. We don’t know if smaller particles are evading treatment, which are the ones that could pose the most serious health concerns.

If that’s not scary, I don’t know what it is.

“We’ve known about the issue for decades,” said Scott Coffin, a research scientist at the California State Water Resources Control Board. “The public has been asking for governments to do something about it for a good 10 or 15 years.”"