Cambridge Finds ‘Forever Chemicals' in Its Drinking Water. Here's What Residents Need to Know

The city across the Charles River from Boston and home to Harvard University and MIT will get water for its nearly 120,000 residents from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's system starting Tuesday until November.

Cambridge, the state's fourth-largest city, gets its water from the Stony Brook Watershed in the Charles River Basin. MWRA water is from the Quabbin and Wachusett reservoirs.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two PFAS chemicals found in Cambridge's water as hazardous substances.

The city has found increasing levels of PFAS chemicals in its finished water supply, and the change in source will begin Tuesday. Cambridge City Manager Owen Riordan said,"The reason that we moved to the MWRA system is that we want to assure people that their water is safe." “You have to have water and if they can get it from the MWRA until the end of the year that’s great and I hope by then we will be back on line," Alita Cane said.

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