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Some of what is in treated water was put there on purpose, and it is the reason the water is safe. The things worth worrying about are the ones nobody added. Here is how to tell them apart.
Read more →PFAS build up in the body for years, cross the placenta and reach breast milk. Here is what the major health agencies say the evidence shows for mothers and babies, how strong each finding is, and what a family can do.
Read more →Microplastics have been found in every placenta tested in one study, and in breast milk and newborns. What they do there is far less certain. Here is what the early evidence shows, how strong it is, and the simple steps that lower a baby’s exposure.
Read more →Lead, arsenic, mercury, manganese and cadmium never break down, and several of them reach a baby before birth. Here is what the evidence shows for each, how strong it is, and how a family can lower the risk from tap water.
Read more →Traces of medicines turn up in some drinking water, at levels thousands of times below a single dose. The risk is considered very low. Here is why scientists still watch it for pregnancy and babies, and what anyone can do.
Read more →Unlike the other contaminants on our list, germs in water make people ill in days, not years, and pregnant women and young children are hit hardest. What the main culprits do, how each one is stopped, and what a family can do.
Read more →Two different limits get quoted in the same argument, in two different units, and the confusion is doing real harm to a question that matters most for babies.
Read more →The European Court of Justice fined Greece in February 2020 for years of delay on agricultural nitrate pollution. It is worth understanding what that ruling did — and what it could never do.
Read more →Since 12 January 2026, every EU member state must monitor forever chemicals in drinking water against a binding limit. For children in residential care, the interesting question is what happens between a limit existing and a tap being safe.
Read more →There is no safe level of lead for a child, and roughly nine million American homes are still served by a lead pipe. New federal rules set deadlines — and they land, for once, on schools and childcare.
Read more →In 2024 the United States regulated forever chemicals in tap water for the first time. In 2026 the compliance date is being pushed back and several of the limits are proposed for removal. Here is what still stands.
Read more →There is still no enforceable limit for microplastics in drinking water anywhere. What there is, increasingly, is evidence — and one finding that turns the usual advice upside down.
Read more →It has no taste, no smell and no colour, it is a proven human carcinogen, and parts of northern Greece sit on geology that puts it into the groundwater. The good news is that this is a solved problem — where anyone is looking.
Read more →Pieces from our earlier years, kept online because the questions they ask have not gone away.
The Foundation began with a promise made in the middle of the Atlantic, on a ship four days from the nearest port.
Read more →Written in the Foundation’s first months, when the 501(c)(3) approval arrived in the middle of a pandemic that closed every border we had planned to cross.
Read more →Clean water is not only a health question. It decides who goes to school, who stays safe walking, and who gets to be productive at all.
Read more →Water poverty is not only a problem of poor countries. More than a million people in the United States have been found living without safe water — and most of them live in big cities.
Read more →Not everyone can donate. Almost everyone can make a cause easier to find — and for a small foundation, being found is most of the battle.
Read more →A village with clean water is a story. A village still buying bottles is the next one. Your gift decides which we get to write.
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