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Your Drinking Water Has “Forever Chemicals” in It — What That Means for Your Family in Southeast Louisiana You just found out that the water coming out of your tap — the water you have been drinking, cooking with, making baby formula with, showering in — contains chemicals that do not break down. Not in the environment. Not in your body. A residential water quality study tested 107 homes across seven Southeast Louisiana parishes and found PFAS in 105 of them. Perfluorooctanoic acid appeared in 97.2 percent of the samples. Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid showed up in 72.9 percent. Arsenic was in 70 percent. Lead was in 67 percent. Every single sample taken during low Mississippi River water levels exceeded the EPA’s recommended salt thresholds. One sample in Plaquemines Parish measured 43 percent above the pending federal limit for PFAS. If you live in St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, or Plaquemines Parish, this is your kitchen table right now. You are looking at a glass of water and wondering whether it is safe to drink. You are wondering what this means for your children, whose developing immune systems the science says are especially vulnerable.…