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As anthropologist Loren Eisley wrote nearly 70 years ago: “If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in water.” Surely, every American who turns on their tap to seemingly endless streams of clean, drinkable water must agree. Although these days, with emerging contaminants like PFAS, often called “forever chemicals,” and trace pharmaceuticals joining
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