• PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    28 days ago

    drinking tap water instead of bottled water

    doomjak

    Ahhh I get to choose between the lead and the plastic, very cool

    Maybe I should try that boiling thing

    I genuinely don’t know if I wanna live anymore

    • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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      528 days ago

      Point of use/under cabinet R.O. or whole house water filter is going to be the only way to ensure safe drinking water going forward.

      They can be had somewhat cheaply, for single faucet dispensing.

      • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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        428 days ago

        It doesn’t eliminate PFAS chemicals though doomjak

        The entire watershed of the town I grew up in has contaminated water from a DuPont plant, provably going back to the 80s. Discovered about a decade ago, absolutely no government action done to mitigate it. For a year or two after the proof came out the county provided free water bottles, then literally nothing. Several hundred thousand people are daily drinking contaminated water out of taps that cannot be remedied at the point of use and the state and local government just continues to shrug

        • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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          27 days ago

          Reverse osmosis very much removes PFAs from drinking water. There are other ways besides RO for reducing/removing pfa’s

      • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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        28 days ago

        ~10 dollars in my fake app bank acct, overdrafted in my “real” bank acct cat-vibing

        Will look into this if I ever have money for safe water to drink

        I love being alive during the era of late capitalism, I love thinking