Earthworm<p>Dear Dutch people,</p><p>Maybe you live in an area where water from the Rhine river is used for drinking water production?</p><p>It might be of your interest that a factory of the chemical company Solvay discharges a highly toxic PFAS into the Neckar river, which ends up later in the Rhine. ☠️ </p><p>And the German administration managed the situation ... just increasing the legal limits from 3 to 60 ppb (microgram/L) and gave the permission to continue discharging 24 L of this PFAS particularly toxic per day ... until 2044! 🤯 </p><p>Maybe this was already in the news in the Netherlands and it's just another of these things we are seemingly helpless until we burn down something ... :acab: </p><p>Anyway, here's the shocking article, by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://opensocial.at/profile/kontextwz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kontextwz</span></a></span>, a very respectable magazine from southwest Germany.</p><p><a href="https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-1ebc356f-31d0029dab5bd0f0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opensocial.at/display/59c238fc</span><span class="invisible">-1ebc356f-31d0029dab5bd0f0</span></a> (article in German, sorry)<br> <br>(thx to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bewegung.social/@berlinerwassertisch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>berlinerwassertisch</span></a></span> & <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rheinneckar.social/@susannelilith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>susannelilith</span></a></span> who both pushed this into my timeline. I was following the inactive account of KontextWochenZeitung... 😅 )</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForeverChemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeverChemical</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForeverPoison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeverPoison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teflon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teflon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterContamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChemicalIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChemicalIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dutch</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nederland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nederland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rhein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rhein</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rhine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rhine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solvay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solvay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Neckar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neckar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadenW%C3%BCrttemberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadenWürttemberg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadWimpfen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadWimpfen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KontextWochenZeitung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KontextWochenZeitung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a></p>