• quips@slrpnk.net
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    17 hours ago

    It is insane you’re getting downvoted like wtf do you mean US doesn’t have drinkable tap water?

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      https://www.nrdc.org/resources/new-map-shows-areas-high-lead-tap-water-levels-lead-violations

      Theres more issues with American drinking water than most want to think.

      Lead contamination is wide spread.

      Theres also many places where drinking water is contaminated with PFAS https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/

      Americas tap water is not as clean or as reliable as one would hope it to be, and it would be a fair concern to want to avoid drinking it.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah I will never get over how people will just lie to throw shade at people and things they don’t like. America pisses me off constantly, I’m from there and I have a lot of rage for it. But lying about how the country’s drinking water isn’t safe to drink in general is a weird thing to do and it’s misinformation which is just gross.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      17 hours ago

      it’s the chlorination. makes it smell foul and impossible to swallow, at least for me. last time i had to buy one of one of those bottles with a built-in filter, because otherwise i would just instinctually not drink water.

      • quips@slrpnk.net
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        4 hours ago

        Then say the water tastes bad. Don’t spread misinformation that the US doesn’t have drinkable tap water.

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          3 hours ago

          i wasn’t the one making the claim, but for me it is undrinkable. when i say “impossible to swallow”, i mean literally. i have an allergic reaction to chlorine, and there’s enough in us tap water to make my throat swell shut.