• OpenStars@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    This should make us all very very afraid of what that water is doing to US!

    (Especially if/when it is colored - last year my water became orange and started giving everyone I knew that drank it mouth soreness, I only wish I was kidding, and ofc it was traced to a corporation found illegally dumping toxic chemicals into the water reclamation systems, thus exposing the entire city to those effects. No, they never faced any legal consequences beyond the slightest slap on the wrist iirc, why would they? That is what finally tipped the scales and helped me realize: the USA is not a first-world nation anymore.)

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      6 months ago

      The tap water killing plants is more commonly the chemicals put in it intentionally to keep it clean/stop us from getting sick and fluoride to keep our mouths cleaner

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      6 months ago

      Don’t let me tell you how to live your life, but if my water turns orange I’m not drinking it.

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        6 months ago

        I mean, not directly no - we boiled it first - but you gotta drink something, sometime.

        What worried me more is not when the screw-up is so easily detectable, but when it goes unnoticed, like the permanent damage done to the residents of Flint, MI, or all those toxic chemicals caused by the multiple train derailments, where the company men tried to pay/threaten/whatever people to say that they were not sick.

        Company profits >>>> human health & safety.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t trust the infrastructure around me very much. I get multiple boil notices a year, and the last water quality report said I had a “safe” level of uranium in my water. I just run all the water I drink and cook with through a Zero pitcher filter now. Not sure if it filters out uranium though, lol.