… [T]here’s growing debate over whether additional fluoride should be introduced to drinking water. This year, states including Utah and Florida have banned the use of fluoride in public water systems, and federal officials have called for more states to follow suit. Nicole Deziel is an associate professor of epidemiology (environmental health sciences) and co-director of the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. In an interview, she explains the benefits and risks of fluoride, how “forever chemicals” and climate change impact water quality, and how we can monitor the water we drink.

Other drinking water and PFAS news:

• The Sacramento Bee: Opinion: A California bill takes a novel approach to address clean drinking water 
• Governing: Blog: The challenge of getting PFAS out of drinking water
• USA Today: New EPA data show more towns have PFAS in their water. Is yours one?
• The Washington Post: Her dogs kept dying. Then ‘forever chemicals’ turned up in her water.