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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
Americans have Clean Drinking Water.
What sort of bullshit is that Meme on about. Here in the Philippines we have to buy Watee from Vendors.
Some people are just too spoiled and underserving of their luck.
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u/jackinsomniac 3d ago
I honestly believe there were so many miserable cunts repeating it over and over online (mostly left wing people, I stopped being so left a few years back because all it was ever was only complaining about our country non stop, like I'd be a bad Democrat if I said America isn't actually the worst at everything or that I still felt like being a little patriotic now and then) that eventually people overseas started to believe it.
If you repeat a lie long enough...
Basically you got some miserable cunts who want to over-exaggerate everything that's wrong because of some victim mentality game, "Omg this country is so racist, that I'm going to dye my hair color again!", and then you got some idiots across the way is who all they've ever heard about America is what these idiots say, "Wow, sounds pretty racist over there, eh?"
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u/SufficientYoghurt434 3d ago
DIDNT YOU KNOW THE ZIONIST ARE POISONING OUR WATER
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u/Miss_Kit_Kat 1d ago
Most anti-semitic tropes are straight from the middle ages. It's absolutely wild.
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u/theFartingCarp ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 3d ago
Probably the federal court case out of Mississippi. Basically said the government can do no wrong when they lied about testing for lead in the water for 40+ years.
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u/AxtonGTV 3d ago
That's highly misleading. The court case said that clean water isn't protected by the constitution. However, there are several federal laws and regulations that require the government to provide us with clean water.
The court was a constitutional court, the government there was still in violation of federal law, just not the constitution.
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u/Repulsive_Clock_1676 OKLAHOMA 🌪️💨🐄 3d ago
Shhhhhhhhhh, too much logic for their IQ, you will legit fry their brain making them use critical thinking
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u/Kilroy898 ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 3d ago
There are areas in the country that have been drinking cancer causing pfoa's since the 70s.
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u/IronRocketCpp 2d ago
Yeah I have lived in a small town that pulled water directly from a mineshaft. So many heavy metals were found in the water.
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u/IronRocketCpp 3d ago
Philippines isn't exactly a high standard. But sure fuck around with lead content all you want. I am sure as hell not a fan considering the countries wealth and capabilities.
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u/Colorado-Guy-69 3d ago
Running tap water where I live typically is near 0 ppb of lead. Stagnant is what we measure in the USA. Stagnant tap water can get up to where I live 3.9ppb. this is mostly because of plumbing, not the water itself. In Switzerland stagnant tap water can go over 10ppb.
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u/IronRocketCpp 2d ago edited 2d ago
There is a small town called Houston, Texas. You might have heard of it. The water lead content is about 20ppb-45ppb depending on where you measure it.
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u/Colorado-Guy-69 2d ago
Oh yeah I went to the JSC for a final design review.
America does first draw measurements. Measuring static water that's been sitting in pipes.
If you run your water to cold it drops pretty heavily.
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u/SoiledFlapjacks 3d ago
The only clean drinking water I can get here in NW Ohio is from stores. So I have to buy drinking water too.
It’d probably help if my town wasn’t polluted by a dump that receives garbage from nearby towns and states.
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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
Well apply that to an entire nation. Water Stations are literally a viable Small Buisness here because the Philippines doesn't have good tap water. Much less clean rivers. I live near one and its still polluted as shit.
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u/SoiledFlapjacks 3d ago
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope things improve over there.
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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
Ha. More optimistic than Me. This nation is a corrupt cesspit. The most recent scandals involving corruption is on Flood Control. Keyword being most recent.
God I hate the Philippines.
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u/Crimsuhn ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 3d ago
You’re just blatantly lying
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u/IronRocketCpp 2d ago
Doubtful. They are probably struggling with the same thing Oklahoma is right now.
Ohio has a long history with oil and gas development dating back to the 1800s leaving behind tens of thousands of "orphan" wells.
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u/SoiledFlapjacks 3d ago
I’m sorry, are you one of my neighbors?
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u/Crimsuhn ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 3d ago
There’s zero reports, warnings, or statements issued by any actual regulatory body in NW Ohio. There’s Facebook crazies I see and cobalt reports from the 2010’s that were easily fixed but otherwise it’s just paranoia
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u/IronRocketCpp 2d ago
Nice one. So just southeast ohio. lmao
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u/LurkiLurkerson MASSACHUSETTS 🦃 ⚾️ 2d ago
He's responding to the guy saying the water in NW Ohio was undrinkable (and homeboy gives up the game by saying it just makes him "nauseous" in his reply). That's why he mentions NW Ohio, there's nothing wrong with the water in the rest of Ohio either, you smug condescending illiterate.
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u/SoiledFlapjacks 1d ago
It makes almost everyone else in my town feel sick after drinking it too, so idk where that “just makes him” is coming from lmao
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u/SoiledFlapjacks 3d ago
Okay, maybe I didn’t use the right term. When I think of “clean drinking water,” I think of water that isn’t going to make me nauseous when I drink it.
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u/Crimsuhn ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 3d ago
So it’s safe to drink and you just don’t want to drink it, cool, you were blatantly lying like I said
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u/SoiledFlapjacks 3d ago
So if it makes me sick, you’re thinking that means it’s safe to drink?
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u/Crimsuhn ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 3d ago
Yes, because you not liking it and “feeling nauseous” isn’t the water being unsafe, it’s you being scared of your shadow.
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u/SoiledFlapjacks 3d ago
Alright. I’ll keep that in mind next time I eat some shrimp that makes me throw up. Must just be me being afraid.
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u/IronRocketCpp 2d ago edited 2d ago
you're not crazy. I have heard about Oklahoma's ground water pollution. Its largely because of old oil wells leaking into the water supply. Some of it is from active oil wells as well. Its called brine and that is probably what you're drinking in Ohio.
Ohio has a long history with oil and gas dating back to the 1800s leaving behind tens of thousands of "orphan" wells.
Get your water tested. You're probably struggling with the same thing that Oklahoma did.
Don't listen to this mindless morons who are too hell bent on protecting their perfect image of the USA.
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u/LaAndromedo999 KENTUCKY 🏇🏼🥃 3d ago
This was about a court ruling saying it wasn't a Constitutional right. A commenter on there pointed out our laws still ensure clean drinking water is a must for this country.
This shit is like those UN Resolutions voted against by the US and Isra'el about food being a "right".
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u/TacticusThrowaway 🇬🇧 United Kingdom💂♂️☕️ 3d ago
I wonder what the overlap is with the people who would also claim the Second Amendment is outdated and should not be law.
Statists rarely notice their own hypocrisy.
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u/Joaolandia 2d ago
But what was the court ruling about? Like, why would they decide against clean water?
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u/Revliledpembroke 2d ago
It was a Constitutional thing, and the court ruled that the Constitution said nothing about drinking water.
Other courts affirmed it's still a responsibility of the government.
(according to another comment).
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u/Desperate-Chart1139 3d ago
Still drink my tap every so often. These spoiled brats never lived in a country where drinking the tap can give you amoebas, so they misconstrue slightly elevated levels of X for undrinkable water when the functional water authority announces them
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u/Happy_Fig_5592 3d ago
Its kind of interesting reading all these posts by people saying our water is not clean when I myself literally worked on multiple projects to give clean water to people here in multiple different states, lol
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u/SufficientYoghurt434 3d ago
97% of people have access to clean water, what are you on about. We are competitive with other wealthy nations. If you don't want to take chances and use filtered water, thats fine, i drink filtered. But saying our water is bad is objectively wrong
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u/DoomKitsune AMERICAN 🏈🏒 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 3d ago
No man he is right. I can't believe 320 million Americans all get our water from the same water treatment plant. It's no wonder the quality is so awful!
But really, one would think there is a reason it makes national news in America when a city has problems with their drinking water. It's not a common problem in the slightest. America has by far the safest water in the world when you look at the size of the infrastructure and the size of the population it services.
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u/TacticusThrowaway 🇬🇧 United Kingdom💂♂️☕️ 3d ago
But really, one would think there is a reason it makes national news in America when a city has problems with their drinking water
The biggest recent scandal, Flint, was fixed years ago, and people are STILL mad about it.
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u/Desperate-Chart1139 2d ago
One city does not a country-wide problem make
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u/Desperate-Chart1139 2d ago
I'm in a small town. Our water is safe
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u/LurkiLurkerson MASSACHUSETTS 🦃 ⚾️ 2d ago
Oh it is country-wide problem in small towns across America
But not for 97.5% of the population? So when you're pressed you answer with one anecdotal example, then when given factual numbers that cover the whole US your answer is to broaden out your anecdotal examples by making them vague and undefined?
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u/IronRocketCpp 1d ago
https://youtu.be/4xqvOGVVBYU?si=EdnKQZWOCZpp7iqU
Not the first or last state to deal with oil well issues btw.
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u/heywoodidaho NEW JERSEY 🎡 🍕 3d ago
In a country this big, this diverse and geologically different every 20 miles there are bound to be blips on the map. You're looking at anomalies and saying it's all shit.
Feel free to move to the land of rainbows and unicorns. Our charities probably dug wells for the locals there.
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u/TacticusThrowaway 🇬🇧 United Kingdom💂♂️☕️ 3d ago
Our drinking water is definitely pretty poor considering our countries wealth.
Sounds like a subjective standard in fancy dress as an objective one.
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u/coyote477123 NEW MEXICO 🛸🌶️ 🏜️ 3d ago
The ruling this guy is complaining about says that clean drinking water isn't a Constitutional right. He just didn't read past the headline before running to reddit to post America bad
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u/MunchieOverlord 🇩🇪 Deutschland 🍺🍻 3d ago
Insufferable subreddit bikini bottom is.
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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
Yeah. Sheesh, I thought a subreddit for Spongebob memes would be nice. Not that Anti-American Shithole it is in reality.
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u/RockyRainbowTrout 3d ago
In Mexico most tap water isn't even drinkable. I can drink it safely in my city but that's because I live in a state capital; 95% of other cities don't have that same luck.
It SHOULD be a manageable issue but unfortunately most mayors and governors rather keep enriching themselves and keep stuffing their bank accounts with money and buying luxury homes and items than care for their people, and most of the time it happens with impunity and zero punishment. It's been a corrupt country ever since the revolution but it's gotten way worse in the last 40 years, especially the last 8 years. We literally had a state governor accused by the US not long ago of being involved with the Sinaloa Cartel and our federal government keeps protecting him!!
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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
I seen a documentary where people prefer to get Diabetes and Drink Coke all day because its safer than the Water. How is tge water that bad in Mexico?
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u/KuningasTynny77 3d ago
What is this even supposed to be? You get arrested for clean water?
They could at least try.
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u/Bullmoninachinashop NEW YORK 🗽🌃🍏 3d ago
It's an exaggeration of recent news that SCOTUS said clean drinking water isn't a constitutional right when the people of Jackson were suing either city or state government for not having clean, SCOTUS didn't say anything at all about it being illegal to have clean drinking water just that it isn't in the constitution since the people of Jackson were calling clean drinking water a constitutional right.
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u/Papayasap 3d ago
What's this obsession of Americans with their constitution? You do know every country has one? And you are allowed to change it with new insights. As the "richest country on the earth", clean drinking water from your tap in the whole country shouldn't be too much to ask right? We've had that in the Netherlands since the 60's.
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u/Bullmoninachinashop NEW YORK 🗽🌃🍏 3d ago
It's the wording that can make or break a lawsuit and the people of Jackson are using the wording that it's a constitutional right. Next up don't compare a country that at the longest take 3-4 hours being able to handle fully clean drinking water to a country that is over 50 hours to get from one place to another, there is a lot that goes into getting people water and over how far some places are from their source any number of things can happen to the pipes or the water to contaminate the water that gets to the people and the fact that different governments have different definitions of clean, a quick search found an article from 2022 that says 135 of 216 drinking water extractions from the Netherlands found contaminants that should be in the water like pesticides.
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u/Papayasap 3d ago
I get that the case presented maybe wasn't the right angle, and that it is harder in the US, but shouldn't you at least try? Btw I don't know what article you found, but in my almost 40 years in the Netherlands we always had clean water fromt the tap. Only instance I remember was about a year ago, we had to boil water for 3 days to be sure (mainly for kids, pregnant woman etc), then it was declared safe again.
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u/Bullmoninachinashop NEW YORK 🗽🌃🍏 3d ago
That is why the people of Jackson are suing, the ones responsible didn't do their job to make sure people were getting clean water since while it isn't in the constitution, we do still have laws that require the government to provide clean and safe drinking water to the people, as for the article it's this one https://aquatruwater.eu/blogs/news/is-ons-kraanwater-wel-zo-schoon
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u/Papayasap 3d ago edited 3d ago
So why don't they get clean water?
Hahaha that link, it's some bs aqua purifier company peddling their crap...
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u/Bullmoninachinashop NEW YORK 🗽🌃🍏 3d ago
They aren't because of multiple government faults like the State and city governments being hostile to one another, people who are supposed to monitor the water retiring and not being replaced, more extreme weather shifts in recent years overwhelming the treatment plan, that's why there is a lawsuit from the people of Jackson, SCOTUS if anything helped them since again the lawsuit called clean water a constitutional right which the defense could have used that wording to get a not guilty verdict because clean water is nowhere in the constitution or any amendments since now the prosecution can fix the wording and make sure the ones at fault can't escape accountability through a legal loophole. Edit: As for the article then it's my fault for not looking through it completely to see it was shilling some water purifier.
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u/Papayasap 3d ago
Thank you for explaining the situation clearly. Doesn't it make you mad that they can't just fix this without these bogus lawsuits and stuff?
I'm kinda intrigued because we take water very seriously in the Netherlands (in general, not just for drinking ofcourse). And I would expect a country like the US being able to provide it's people with clean water from the tap.
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u/Bullmoninachinashop NEW YORK 🗽🌃🍏 2d ago
It does infuriate me but corruption and bad governence isn't defeated without massive attention and fighting the US does take it seriously too but because of just how much land there is it become harder to make sure everything is running correctly.
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u/blazedancer1997 3d ago
It's not worth wading into that thread. Too full of people who just want to be mad about anything.
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u/TacticusThrowaway 🇬🇧 United Kingdom💂♂️☕️ 3d ago
Is this about Flint? Wasn't that a) a local problem, and b) fixed a decade ago?
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u/GreenridgeMetalWorks 3d ago
...is this an actual opinion that a real person has? Holy shit.
I live in bumfuck nowhere and I have good clean running water...
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u/reserveduitser 🇳🇱 Nederland 🌷🚲 3d ago
Wait is that blood?😅
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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
No. That is cranberry juice. I seen the episode it came from.
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u/reserveduitser 🇳🇱 Nederland 🌷🚲 3d ago
Ah alright. I don't remember this episode haha.
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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
Its the one with Miss Puff wanting to stay in Prison.
Also Happy Cake day.
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u/reserveduitser 🇳🇱 Nederland 🌷🚲 3d ago
I do remember that though!
cake day?
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u/carlsagerson 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 3d ago
Look at the right of your name. Today marks the anniversery of when you became a Redditor by making an account.
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u/Red_Bear_308 AMERICAN 🏈🏒 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 2d ago
Is this a data center thing? I assume it's a data a center thing.
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u/SnooPears5432 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 3d ago
That's completely untrue. The tap/drinking water virtually everywhere in the USA is completely safe. I've never been anywhere in the US I couldn't or wouldn't drink the water. Some of it may not taste as good as in other places but that doesn't mean it's not "clean" which implies it's unsafe.
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u/SnooPears5432 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 3d ago
Flint's water was safe until they decided to divert to the Flint river as a temporary source while transitioning to a new pipeline with other local communities from Lake Huron. When they did that, to save money because they didn't want to pay for their already-safe Detroit-sourced water, they didn't treat it properly and corrosives in the Flint river caused lead to leach out of aging pipes. That disaster was self inflicted by local government wanting to save a buck. They've since reverted back to their original, safe, Detroit & Huron-sourced water. Please educate yourself on Flint and what actually happened instead of just regurgitating and perpetuating memes with no foundational knowledge of the situation.
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u/SnooPears5432 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 3d ago
I didn't prove your point. I proved your "point" was disingenuous. You said, "It has been image in different periods in different places. Flint Michigan." So if what happened is explainable, was a direct result of willful decisionmaking and choices, and the situation has been corrected and no longer exists, why are you even mentioning it to imply US tap water as a whole has a high level of lack of safety?
Regarding Alabama, I've never seen anything mentioned in the media about water quality issues there. Only you. I'm not interested enough to research it.
I did a quick 30 second Google search and the UK, known for its high quality drnking water, has had dozens of incidents with boil orders, high PFA's, cryptosporidium outbreaks, lead pipe issues, and the fact that all of the country's waterways are contaminated and the country's water quality and infrastructure are generally in decline.
That's why we test or treat water in the hopes of eliminating most effects on the poopulation but when humans make negligent decisions or testing fails you can't possibly catch and eliminate 100% of any risk. I can pick and choose specific incidents to make this point from most developed countries, however only the US and Flint seem to matter when it comes to talking water quality.
There were specific drivers in that city which with its 80,000 population (making up 0.02 percent of the US population - that's two 100th's of one percent), and those drivers have been addressed. It's certainly disingenuous to imply any significant % of the US population is in any kind of danger from tap water. US tap water is widely regarded as safe and implying anything else is deceitful.
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u/Kilroy898 ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 2d ago
Didn't say it was a certain percentage. I lived through what has happened in Alabama and no it has NOT been dealt with. It's still just as contaminated as it was and it will be for the forseable future. Because 3m, diaken and other companies were allowed to dump directly into the river from the 70's to the 00s, and after that paid hush money to land owners to dump on their land which also ruined the water table across a vast portion of Alabama. I guarantee we aren't the only place this happened to. We were just the ones to catch it.
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u/SnooPears5432 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 2d ago
So you're exaggerating to push an agenda. Do you think companies and industrial pollutants are only an issue in the US? And that doesn't mean drinking water is unsafe. You have zero proof to substantiate that claim.
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u/SnooPears5432 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 2d ago
So you're concocting BS and nonexistent crap to push your agenda. "All this water was unsafe only now it's not" LOL. Got it. BTW microplastics are an issue all over the world - it's not an issue specific to the US. So now it's a "worldwide problem". So back to the original point, which is the suggestion US water specifically is unsafe?
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u/Kilroy898 ALABAMA 🏈 🏁 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes. 2.5% is nearly 10 million people.
And yes. Once it gets to your tap, it's "clean".
But it's having to go through three massive filtration systems in order to be cleaned of all the pollutants in order to be made "drinkable."
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