[onthecanposting]

You are being helped. Given these requirements, it's pretty likely that your water utility will hike your rates to pay for the required upgrades. I feel badly for the rural utilities. This is likely to push the trend of regionalization.

[bagels]

Yes, I know. The GP comment was arguing for every person for themselves on this stuff.

[_heimdall]

I wasn't arguing for every person for themselves with regards to PFAS in city water. It seems totally reasonable for water utilities to be required to provide clean water, either through government or internal rules.

I was arguing that more consumers could step up to make similar decisions, in this case avoiding PFAS products.

We don't have direct control over what's in our water, especially in areas where collecting rain water or using a well isn't even allowed if you wanted to do it yourself. We do have control over what we buy though, we just rarely see consumers making decisions that match the values we often argue for (like we need to massively reduce oil/plastic use and chemical exposures).