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
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
Why not boil in a plastic bottle so you get the best of both worlds!
Those are phthalate crystals precipitating out of my skin after I try this
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.
~10 dollars in my fake app bank acct, overdrafted in my “real” bank acct
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
It doesn’t eliminate PFAS chemicals though
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
Reverse osmosis very much removes PFAs from drinking water. There are other ways besides RO for reducing/removing pfa’s