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Tap water from around the world contains tiny bits of plastic, survey finds - C C - Sep 7, 2017 https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/survey-finds-small-amounts-of-microplastics-in-tap-water-the-world-over/ EXCERPT: Tiny bits of plastic commonly come rushing out of water taps around the world [...] Overall, 83 percent of the 159 samples contained some amount of microplastics. Those samples came from various places in the US, Europe, Indonesia, Uganda, Beirut, India, and Ecuador. No country was without a plastic-positive water sample. In fact, after testing a handful of samples from each place, the lowest contamination rate was 72 percent. The highest—found in the US—was 94-percent positive rate. The microplastic pieces found are tiny, as small as 2.5 micrometers in size. The amounts were tiny, too.... - - -