Faced with the crisis of eternal pollutants, two drinking water distributors have decided to play the game of transparency and launch a counter-attack. Eau de Paris, the main public water company in France, and Atlantic’eau, the public water service in the Loire-Atlantique region, communicated on Thursday 13 February the results of their analyses on the presence of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in water to respond to the ‘legitimate concerns’ of their users. The Paris agency announces that it will file a complaint against X in the coming days. The latter concerns several offences: pollution of drinking water supply networks due to the spillage of substances, abandonment of waste and substantial degradation of the environment. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, had declared the day before that she was preparing appeals with other authorities and local operators to obtain compensation for ecological damage and to have the staggering costs of the clean-up financed by the producers. “It is the polluters who have to pay, the chemical multinationals that market these pollutants whose toxicity they have known for decades,” explains Dan Lert, president of Eau de Paris. Not the users, not the drinking water operators, not the local authorities. “…
