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ArticleEnvironmental science. Processes & impacts2026

Characteristics of 'early adopters' of water treatment capacity needed to remove PFAS and other emerging contaminants in the United States.

Jahred M Liddie, Mona Q Dai, Gary Adamkiewicz, Elsie M Sunderland

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Article in Environmental science. Processes & impacts, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Jahred M LiddieDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. j.liddie@gwu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2896-4015
Mona Q DaiHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3724-7675
Gary AdamkiewiczDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. j.liddie@gwu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5397-3015
Elsie M SunderlandDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. j.liddie@gwu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-9548

Funding

Sources, Transport, Exposure & Effects of PFAS (STEEP) Center - RENEWALP42ES027706 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND · PI Rainer Lohmann · 2017 to 2026
$18.9M
Training Program in Environmental EpidemiologyT32ES007069 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI LADEN, FRANCINE · 1985 to 2024
$13.9M
NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES027706NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007069
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Past work shows exposures to drinking water contaminants can differ among regions with varying sociodemographic composition, in part due to disparities in siting of pollution sources. Drinking water treatment by reverse osmosis, ion exchange, or activated carbon has been recommended by United States (US) regulatory agencies for community water systems (CWS) with elevated concentrations of emerging chemical toxicants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). However, barriers faced by CWS in implementing such technologies are not well understood. Here we used a national scale (

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FluorocarbonsWater Pollutants, ChemicalWater PurificationDrinking WaterUnited StatesWater SupplyDrinking WaterFluorocarbonsWater Pollutants, Chemical

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PMID41729588
PMCPMC12928183

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