Hey, it's Nate Hedgy. This is Outside In. So there are a lot of scary contaminants out there.

You've got lead, asbestos, radon gas. But I think some of the scariest contaminants and also the

hardest to report on are the ones with big, weird acronyms and chemical names. Case and point,

PFS chemicals. I mean, PFS?

Who came up with that?

But this is pretty wild stuff.

And for years, the outside end team has batted around story ideas on PFS contamination.

But then our colleague, Mara Hoplamazian, went ahead and made something better than we could have even dreamed of. It's a four-part

series called Safe to Drink. And it asks, where do these chemicals come from? What do they do to our

bodies? And when you've been exposed, how do you move forward? This series was made by the same

crack team that helped us report Operation Nightcat.

And once you hear it, I bet you'll never look at a glass of water the same way again.

We're going to play you the first episode, and when you want to binge the rest afterwards,

and you will, there's a link in the show notes.

Here it is.

Ben Pearson. there's a link in the show notes. Here it is. Ben Pierce was driving home.

He'd just dropped his kid off at daycare.

And he noticed something kind of odd.

I remember coming down high-range road

and passing one of the neighbor's houses up on high-range road

and they were getting a water

delivery. Like cases and cases of bottled water, the kind of delivery you'd see at a convenience

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