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[–] TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most of these comments are people recommending bottled water or various filtration methods, both of which could work in varying degrees. Let’s not miss the point that people who will be most impacted are low income and might struggle to pay their tap water bill. Bottled water and filters are a stretch for those folks. The true fix is demanding more of our politicians to hold polluters accountable and push for better treatment of the tap water.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aren't people paying taxes?

No idea why people would rather spend more money than to hold the government accountable to fix the services they pay for.

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[–] Reddit_was_fun@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I live in the Cape Fear area of North Carolina and we are dealing with this. Chemors, the maker of Teflon, has been dumping PFAS in our water.

My town recently built a reverse osmosis water treatment plant. It is the only way to get it out of the water. Traditional water filters don’t work.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did they at least get Chemors to stop dumping the shit too??

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

3 companies were found liable for having knowingly dumped toxic PFAS into our drinking water supply. Chemours, Dupont, and Corteva. They admitted no wrong doing, but settled out of court for a total of 1.19 billion, half of which was paid by Chemours, the main contributor, and the other half paid by Dupont and Corteva. This happened in June 2023.

Annual Profits

Dupont: ~14 billion per year

Chemours: ~7 billion per year

Corteva: ~17 billion per year

PFAS in drinking water has been found to cause numerous health problems, including "altered metabolism, fertility, reduced fetal growth and increased risk of being overweight or obese, increased risk of some cancers, and reduced ability of the immune system to fight infections."

[–] BrisvegasLukass@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bottled water is the fucking problem. Don't whinge about anything climate based if you recommend plastic. The disconnect on solving contaminated water with plastic water bottles s mind boggling.

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you don't have a water source very close plastic beats glass very fast.

Glass is so much heavier that the additional fuel to transport it over 100km offsets whatever emissions plastic creates.

This is the classic "no good option" dilemma depending where you live.

In many parts of Europe you can buy the locally sourced water from glass bottles - but it doesn't make much sense buying glass bottles for climate change reasons otherwise

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As long as the companies providing the water a) make more than enough profits and b) are not held accountable, why should they do anything about it?

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because it's morally right? But I get your point and understand the question isn't meant to be answered.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Morally right" does neither rise the shareholders profits nor the managers bonus.

[–] robbotlove@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Know your enemy!

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