Chemical products present in Spanish land

PFAS are a group of synthetic chemicals known as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily and accumulate in the environment. However, these chemicals are widely detected in Spain’s drinking water distribution networks. The journalists analysed data from the National Drinking Water Information System (SINAC) to map areas where PFAS levels exceed safety limits, creating “the first snapshot of the PFAS situation in tap water”. Importantly, around 4.4 million people live in ‘critical’ areas, where contamination is 60% of the legal limit. The data comes from the Forever Lobbying Project, made up of 46 journalists from 16 countries, as well as 18 academics and international lawyers, who spent over a year reviewing more than 14,000 documents to investigate a lobbying and misinformation campaign orchestrated by the PFAS industry to water down a European Union proposal to ban these types of products.