Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoHomeless people in Phoenix are passing out from dehydration and getting third-degree burns from the sidewalkwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1340arrow-down15
arrow-up1335arrow-down1external-linkHomeless people in Phoenix are passing out from dehydration and getting third-degree burns from the sidewalkwww.nytimes.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareFoxyFerengi@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up69·2 months agoWe can’t be giving homeless people free drinking water when there’s golf courses to maintain in the desert /s It’s ridiculous how society treats homeless people like pests
minus-squaremassacre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 months agoIn Arizona the water mainly goes to grow alfalfa. In the desert. For the Saudis.
minus-squareameancow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoSure but look at what we’re getting out of the deal! Just look at it!
minus-squarebbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 months agoWe need to reinforce our free water at businesses law that made the businesses liable if someone is turned away and suffers injury without water
minus-squareToastedRavioli@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoNot all places have this law, although it probably should be a law everywhere. That said, most businesses are able to skirt it fairly easily by giving away tiny cups of water. Some buy tiny cups just for this purpose and nothing else
minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months agoGolf is a surge upon this earth. Wasting water in deserts. Wasting what could be green space in cities
minus-squareJaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agocreates them and then treats them like pests.
We can’t be giving homeless people free drinking water when there’s golf courses to maintain in the desert /s
It’s ridiculous how society treats homeless people like pests
In Arizona the water mainly goes to grow alfalfa. In the desert. For the Saudis.
Sure but look at what we’re getting out of the deal! Just look at it!
We need to reinforce our free water at businesses law that made the businesses liable if someone is turned away and suffers injury without water
Not all places have this law, although it probably should be a law everywhere. That said, most businesses are able to skirt it fairly easily by giving away tiny cups of water. Some buy tiny cups just for this purpose and nothing else
Golf is a surge upon this earth. Wasting water in deserts. Wasting what could be green space in cities
A scourge, even.
creates them and then treats them like pests.