Hey, I’m not unfriendly. I like Russian escorts and vodka.
I just wish their leaders would be a little more friendly to the rest of the world.
I live in America and I wouldn’t drink the tap water
You’re part of the minority then. 12% in the USA never drinks tap water. 71% of us drink it at least sometimes. source
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.
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.
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.
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
Is the water brown coming out of the water main at the street? Is the brown being added by old piping/water heaters in your house/building?
If you want to understand how incredible NYC’s water system is, watch this Wendover video. It blew my mind.
Of course, shitty landlords with old pipes ruins it for a lot of people, but the hard part is done.
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
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
A lot of cities in California have problems with hexavalent chromium and arsenic in tap water and nothing is really done about it. It’s naturally occurring, abundant, and really hard to remove from the water.
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”
Flint, Michigan has left the chat
I thought Chile had drinkable table water. Last time someone posted a UN map, iirc Chile was the sole county in South America highlighted.
A very different map. I’ve never had issues in Argentina.
I trust the tap water in Malaysia better than I do the tap water in the US.
(Speaking from personal experience.)
You better wipe America off that list lol. Flint Michigan have water yet?
Yes, they do.
The water mains in question were replaced, and 95% of lead service lines have been replaced.
About 3 years for the last supply lines to homes to get replaced. It wasn’t a big deal after about a year.
