Eau de Paris recordsdata complaints towards X for contamination at PFAS | EUROtoday

As anticipated, the municipal authority liable for water in Paris filed a criticism towards X Friday March 28 for air pollution of its consuming water community to everlasting pollution (or PFAS), with a view to set up the origin of this contamination and to use the precept “Pollueur-payer”.

“The fight is just beginning against those responsible for this health scandal. Manufacturers will have to answer for their acts before the courts ”mentioned the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, in a press launch from the Water of Paris, who filed a criticism to the Paris court docket on the request of the socialist councilor.

“The State must do everything to make the manufacturers of these substances take care of depollution in the name of the polluter-pays principle. It is not for users to pay the bill ”estimates Anne Hidalgo.

The state “not up to par”, in response to the city corridor

The criticism of the municipal authority, of which the France-Presse (AFP) company has obtained a duplicate, goals to establish the tasks of the producers of the chemical substances “Per- and polyfluoroalkylated” (PFAS, or everlasting pollution), of commercial or agricultural origin, with a view to make them pay the extra price attributable to the decontamination of consuming water. This further price, evaluated at “Several tens of millions of euros, should not be supported by users, communities, nor drinking water operators”mentioned to AFP Dan Lert, the president of water in Paris.

“The drinking water distributed in Paris is 100 % in accordance with health standards. It will remain so in 2026 thanks to the treatments that has been implemented and the actions to protect the resource carried out for many years ”underlined Dan LERT, additionally assistant to the mayor liable for ecological transition, water and power.

However, public administration has detected the presence of an unregulated PFAS in its adduction community, TFA, “Which is not integrated into health control”in response to him. Complaint “Is also a means of putting the national authorities in the face of their responsibilities, whether in the prevention of future pollution, so that the current situation does not continue, or in the repair of the damage caused and the costs that are generated”he continued, judging that the state was not “Not up to it”.