• TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      9 months ago

      The US has many places where drinking the water is not safe, not that people are just choosing not to. I’m sure the people of Flint would be psyched to be able to actually drink tap water again.

      The places with forever chemical contamination are also growing.

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        9 months ago

        You might consider updating your thoughts. The water in Flint has been fixed for several years.

        The water mains damaged by corrosion were replaced, and the vast majority of household service lines have been replaced.

        It’ll take time before people trust the water system fully again, but it’s been independently tested and shown to be fine, with continued monitoring as part of the lawsuit settlement.

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          9 months ago

          According to the latest posted tests from 2022 they still show lead in test samples, although they are under the “limit”. But the same tests will tell you there is no safe amount of lead. They also only did 4 samples for the 1st half and 6 samples for the 2nd half. Depending on where those samples are coming from I would proceed with caution if that was my water.

          But if people want to believe the same people that said it was safe when it was brown I’m not here to stop them.

          Flint Annual Water Quality Report 2022

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        The US has many places where drinking the water is not safe, not that people are just choosing not to. I’m sure the people of Flint would be psyched to be able to actually drink tap water again.

        Sure, but a town with a population of 80k people doesn’t define a nation. The vast majority of Americans have safe tap water available to drink.

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      9 months ago

      Aren’t “never drinking” and “drinking at least sometimes” collectively exhaustive? So what do the remaining 17% do with their tap water?

      Edit: I can’t count this late

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        9 months ago

        Always drink tap water? I don’t know how you do that, but whatever. Maybe it means when there’s a choice they always choose tap? Idk.

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        9 months ago

        Wash dishes, bathe, water plants, water balloons, electrolysis, all the good stuff

        Can’t speak for everywhere but where I live the water is safe, it just tastes TERRIBLE

        Like I’ve accidently tasted deodorant that tasted better

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        9 months ago

        I’m reading the article you posted as well as a few others I found to explain the science, risk, and scale.

        This feels like you’re posting it as more alarmist than it is:

        • Its not the result of industrial pollution, as it is sometimes elsewhere in the world.
        • This looks like its also a small pocket of population (70,000 people according to your article which is even less than Flint Michigan at its worst)
        • California is following a stricter standard double that of the Federal requirement and even then…
        • …none of the samples exceed the extra strict safe standards of 50 ppb “The highest reading from a single well came to 42 parts per billion”
    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The tap water in NYC is brown lol

      I know it’s probably safe to drink through some technicality, but it’s definitely off-putting. We can’t even use it in our humidifier without filtering it

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        9 months ago

        Unless you’re drinking exclusively spring water, your bottled water is coming from someone else’s municipal tap with an extra fee for bottling on top.