ORONO, Maine — According to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, nearly half of all tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with "forever chemicals."

Research into PFAS chemicals and their health impacts is growing nearly every day, but no software is available to combine the data to track potential hotspots. A University of Maine researcher is developing a possible solution.  

That's why Torsten Hahmann, a computer scientist and associate professor of spatial computing at UMaine, wanted to find a way to combine and analyze this growing body of research into one database. 

"We don't want to reproduce all that data. We want to connect to that data," Hahmman explained.