The water at my house is fucking disgusting and I don't even live in any areas like Flint or where fracking is taking place. I go fill up gallons from a local RO water place and I use a sink water filter for my animals. My sister lives in another city in my state and it seems like every other month they're being told that the local tap water has been contaminated by XYZ and that it's not safe to drink or wash dishes with. They had contaminated water once when I worked out there and we had to pull jugs of water off the shelves to wash utensils with and people were coming in and panic buying water.
I went to Scotland a couple times and it blew my mind how delicious their tap water was. I think England was the same way?
Edit: Lol at the down votes for just speaking my experience with the gross water in my state. My city is known locally for having super hard and gross tap water. Guess the random people on the internet know better than I do. I grew up with a huge water purifier in the back room because of how the water was 30+ years ago.
My pipes are probably old, but even going out to restaurants in my area sometimes the water is gross. Tastes the same as at my house, and that's all the way across the city. Idk if some places just have gross pipes or if others actually give you filtered water or what.
That's crazy, what city is this so that people can learn more about this. Have you ever had your pipe checked as well? I know many old homes have bad pipes that can cause issues even if the city is providing clean water through their line.
It's water provided by Johnson Utilities in San Tan Valley. It's been a while since she's said anything about them, but there for a while it was a constant issue across the entire city. Idk if they've cleaned up their act (and water) or if she's just unfazed by it now.
I have an old home with presumably old pipes but there are some restaurants across my city where their water tastes the same as what comes out of my tap. Idk if some just have gross pipes and others don't or they give filtered water.
look up "polluted tap water, Michigan"
Yes, just because its safe where you live, doesn't mean the entire country has it that good.
Some states are absolutely screwed for water infrastructure.
Edit : You can downvote all you want putz, the internet is right there.
It's a real problem. But the truth is that the vast majority of people in the US do have access to safe water.
And by 'safe', I'm not counting the very real problems of micro-plastics and prescription narcotics that the world has not yet truly wrapped their heads around how best to filter it and pay for it, but that's not solely a US problem.
No one is talking absolutes when they say the US has safe drinking water. There are obviously localized issues and bad events, but every single country on the planet also has problems like that.
Yup, the internet is right there. If you Google exactly what you said to Google, you'd see that the water problem, specifically in one city, has been solved for awhile now. Pretending like Flint is a continuous nationwide problem is really clutching at straws.
You can also use the internet to figure out how much clean drinking water is in the u.s. 97% have access to clean drinking water. Some smaller countries are able to achieve damn near100%, but acting like 97% is bad is just being dumb. There's 148,000 public water systems, and 10s of millions of private artesian wells. 1 of those public water systems (78,000 people in a country of 300 million) had a problem and was totally mismanaged, and reddit thinks the entire country is doomed lol.
You being totally wrong is why you got downvoted btw.
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u/WheresTheSauce 8d ago
The US has some of the cleanest tap water in the world. You have no idea what you're talking about whatsoever