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“A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry has found Sydney Water was too quick to say there was no PFAS contamination in the city’s drinking water catchment.
The report by an upper house parliamentary select committee found Sydney Water did not perform an ‘appropriate level of due diligence’ before it claimed in June 2024 there were no known PFAS hotspots within its drinking water catchments.
The focus on so-called ‘forever chemicals’ is growing, with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) referring to a family of synthetic chemicals found in all sorts of industrial and cleaning products that remain in the environment.” …