smh. there goes my rain collection plans.

If it's in the rain, it's in all water sources. You just have to use appropriate filtration systems that target PFAS. No need to stop using rainwater catchments.

This got posted a couple weeks ago. I wouldn't worry to much. If you drink, smoke, or eat a wide variety of processed foods (nacho cheese yum) you are doing more damage to yourself then these forever chemicals. A good reverse osmosis system removes PFOS and PFOA. So collect your rain water and just use an RO system.

Depending on how your rain water catchment works, you would need to filter it anyway to remove any raccoon poop or bird poop.

The word “rainwater” never meant that it didn’t need to be treated in some manner.

but not drinking water will make you SO thirsty. Or will you only drink groundwater or glacial meltwater (that hopefully went into storage before PFAS were around)? All surface water sources are directly recharged by rain, so river and reservoir water is at least as risky. On the bright side, eating fast food and driving around in a car are much more likely to kill you.

Dont drink it and die in 4 days from dehydration ... OR ... drink it your entire life and probably NOT die in 40 or 50 years from PFAS related causes.

Seems a no-brainer here, right?

Fine! I’ll just stock up on margaritas instead!!

It’s in the food now. Humanity’s days are numbered if we can’t fix this.

Well they did just drop the limit from 70 ppt to .004 ppt. And the article isn't really that exact on the rain water issue. They don't talk where they gathered the rain water from, and that often it exceeded the (new) limits, and it doesn't say what the numbers found were.

Also "the researchers found PFOA levels in drinking water exceed these guidelines in every part of the world, even in some of the most remote areas such as Antarctica and the Tibetan plateau.". That's drinking water. So they found no "safe" drinking water, and "often" non "safe" rain water.

PFOAs suck, but there isn't anything we are going to do to avoid 10 ppt of PFOA in general any time soon. Most filters brag of filtering 99.6% of the PFOAs now. That means prior minimal acceptance filtered 70ppt * .004 = .280 ppt. is WAY above the .004 ppt new requirement.

Im looking at getting a Berkey in the near future, they claim it removes over 99.9% of PFAs. Ive seen a lot of third party reviews of them that seem to back their claims as well.

https://www.berkeyfilters.com/pages/do-berkey-water-filters-remove-pfcs-and-pfas

https://www.berkeyfilters.com/products/imperial-berkey

Put an activated carbon or ion exchange filter, and you should be good.

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It's been there for ages, and second, it's still Probst safer than most other sources.

filter and test when concern arises

Read about that recently, really sad disappointment, and also infuriating just how evil humans really are. We just keep destroying every aspect of this planet.

I wonder if distilling the water would get rid of these chemicals. I'm thinking you could distill it, and then add the right minerals to it. Downside is you now need to have a source of those minerals, if you're trying to be self sufficient and not rely on consumables. I guess you can just buy a life time supply. Would pink salt work? I think that has all the minerals we need in it right?

It’s 100% bullshit. Rain water is essentially pure.