Less chemicals in your water

The EU parliament yesterdat voted for a legislation that increases the list of chemicals to be monitored in water. The water you drink will thus be less toxic in the long run. Or so is the idea I would assume.

The legislation lists substances of which some are priority hazardous substances and has to be phased out within 20 years. Here is the list of priority and priority hazardous substances.

The priority hazardous substances are:

Anthracene

Pentabromobiphenylether

Cadmium and its compounds

C10-13-chloroalkanes

Endosulfan

Hexachlorobenzene

Hexachlorobutadiene

Hexachlorocyclohexane

Mercury and its compounds

Nonylphenols

Pentachlorobenzene

Polyaromatic hydrocarbons

Tributyltin compounds

See, the world really is starting to come to its senses :-)

Read more here.