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.
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.
Conservative “government is the problem” brain rot is extremely pervasive.
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.
Did they at least get Chemors to stop dumping the shit too??
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.
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
I don’t know much about this but wouldn’t a water filter be better?
We have great municipal water so I have never used one, but it at least sounds better than buying bottled water.
Yeah using the local tap water and adding a water filter if necessary is the best option for sure
What are you even talking about? The moral “dilemma” here isn’t between water bottled in plastic vs. water bottled in glass; it’s between water bottled in plastic and water piped through the damn tap. Tap water is unambiguously superior and it’s not even close.
If that’s drinkable then definitely
Not sure if I’d trust a 20€ Amazon filter with US tap water in some regions
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?
Because it’s morally right? But I get your point and understand the question isn’t meant to be answered.
“Morally right” does neither rise the shareholders profits nor the managers bonus.
this guy capitalists
Know your enemy!
Municipal water supply is one of the few things left that’s almost universally provided by the government directly instead of being outsourced to corporations. “Morally right” should actually matter here!