Sandra Wiedemann at home in Buschwiller with her six-month-old son Côme. She finds it ‘scary’ that Pfas have contaminated her local drinking water, and that her son is among the vulnerable groups – Listen to the podcast: „The French town that banned its tap water“ THE GUARDIAN 01.07.2025
Bruno Wollenschneider, who sent blood samples from 10 residents’ association members in Saint-Louis to a lab for analysis.
Firefighting foam used for decades at the busy Basel Mulhouse Freiburg airport is the source of the pollution.
People stocked up on bottled water after the Pfas news spread.
A readout of the water analysis of Hésingue, a village near the Basel Mulhouse Freiburg airport, showing the concentrations of Pfas.
Rural Saint-Louis is close to the borders of Switzerland and Germany, and is the site of France’s biggest ever ban on drinking tap water.
Frank Bezza and his dog, in the small village of Buschwiller, which is not far from Saint-Louis and the EuroAirport. Since April 2025, when the PFAS news appeared, he started drinking only botteld water.
