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[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This should make us all very very afraid of what that water is doing to US!

(Especially if/when it is colored - last year my water became orange and started giving everyone I knew that drank it mouth soreness, I only wish I was kidding, and ofc it was traced to a corporation found illegally dumping toxic chemicals into the water reclamation systems, thus exposing the entire city to those effects. No, they never faced any legal consequences beyond the slightest slap on the wrist iirc, why would they? That is what finally tipped the scales and helped me realize: the USA is not a first-world nation anymore.)

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The tap water killing plants is more commonly the chemicals put in it intentionally to keep it clean/stop us from getting sick and fluoride to keep our mouths cleaner

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Only if you like more mundane (yet accurate) explanations:-P.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't let me tell you how to live your life, but if my water turns orange I'm not drinking it.

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

I mean, not directly no - we boiled it first - but you gotta drink something, sometime.

What worried me more is not when the screw-up is so easily detectable, but when it goes unnoticed, like the permanent damage done to the residents of Flint, MI, or all those toxic chemicals caused by the multiple train derailments, where the company men tried to pay/threaten/whatever people to say that they were not sick.

Company profits >>>> ~~human health & safety~~.