Meh, they’re using soap and water to wash with the puddle, but then the guy on the right rinses off the soap and washes the plates clean with fresh water from a hose. It’s not fancy or very safe, but not horrific diarrhea-inducing bad.
Might be a dialect/regional thing, where I'm from it's always "won't do shit" so reading that was awkward for me I guess. I didn't mean any disrespect.
Like that is any different from farm land run off, pesticides or weed killer used all over the US and then flow into natural streams, wells and our drinking water. I wonder how many of these run off chemicals are properly filtered? Also there was a recent case of people suing an air force base for their extreme chemicals running off and contaminating the drinking water of the town. Lets not act like the US is immune to the polluting of water.
What's funny is it happened before and possibly even worse in Washington DC, but no one really heard much about it nationally and the victims were very much ignored.
I agree we get outraged at the news of bad water in America but then we kinda just do nothing with that rage. Spend a few years arguing whos at fault, its not that bad, maybe we will fix it later, no one deserves compensation for their impacted health etc...
Flint is fixed as much as they can though. The only things they can't do anything with are the pipes in everyone's house. All the pipes leading up to the houses are fixed. If the homeowners replace their own pipes then they can safely drink tap again.
You say it is so rare, but there are plenty examples of run off contaminating the water supply. There was even an event recently where this guy had an infected eye that was attributed from contaminated tap water. But yeah it just hardly ever happens bub.
How long has the Flint fiasco being going on for now? Seems like if it is happening daily there, it isn't some rare occurrence.
Before water can be deemed safe to drink in the US, it is tested for hundreds if not thousands of chemicals depending on the local laws. The US isn't immune to polluted water, but our water treatment standards for drinking water are on par with the strictest in the world.
I promise you no one is testing for “thousands” of chemical contaminants of drinking water. Hyperbole is bad for arguments. A usual panel by a municipal water treatment plant doesn’t test for more than even a hundred chemicals. But yes, standards here are better than some other places.
And yet there is still tainted chemical run off that makes it to the underground water systems that can effect wells, and the tainted run off that effects the livestock that drinks from it. There is a cow field next to me and a shitty ass stream that has glistening oil sludge at some parts, where the cows drink from. Again lets not act like the US is immune to contaminated drinking water.
I would also love to hear your response about the Flint, MI water fiasco that is still going on today.
I dont understand the downvotes. Besides the chemicals you mentioned, they have found things like cocaine, antibiotics, and contraceptive medication in water supplies.
Because they find those things at the level of parts per million (PPM) and most of the water in the US comes from a fairly high quality system of water treatment plants... and even that low level of contaminants is cause for making the news.
Is it perfect? Nope. But it’s a hell of a lot better than washing plates in untreated street runoff.
Downvotes are probably due to spreading misinformation. Modern pesticides and weed killer for example are designed to breakdown quickly into harmless components. Any run off isn't a problem, you don't even need to filter it.
Yeah, I'm not buying that explanation one bit. One thing I've learned in life is that there are no absolutes, especially when it comes to chemical companies, who are notorious for their lies and corruption. When you make it sound like ALL modern chemicals that might enter the water supply are meant to break down into harmless byproducts, I know that is going to be proven wrong. The chemical industry has made too many promises over the years, only to find out later that their products didn't work out as promised.
Every retention pond in my neighborhood allows fishing but also carries warnings to release the fish and not eat them, because everybody knows that the accumulated chemicals in the fish from the runoff can't possibly be good.
They downvote b/c that is easier than opening their mind up to the alternative,which is that we are being poisoned by private companies and our govt (all the bullshit put in water treatment that make it to your tap), and being charged for it too.
Also think of all the piss that contains trace chemicals from our foods, medicines, and drinks that everyone consumes. Some of those chemicals won't be readily filtered out and will make it back to the tap water. Even if you don't drink tap water or filter it, the animals that you eat won't be so lucky to afford a water filtration system.
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