mig2k

Did Hillary's Foley catheter pop out again?

physicscat

Are you talking about Alabama & Georgia? It's not a media blackout in Atlanta.

wincest1

This is the reason the North Dakotans are protesting the installation of a new pipeline.Pipelines the world over have a long history of leaking.

aileron_ron

Every time I see something like this I know we will see gas go up in So Cal.

bikergang_accountant

Is it really a media black out when I saw this story on Fox?

Fuck drinking state water anyway. Seriously though, I certainly hope the citizens are able to figure out how to get clean water because many people are dependent on sucking from the govt's poisonous teet. Some people really suck at changing behavior.

It's such a waste of human potential to have people's health and IQ lowered by not realizing how critical water quality is and not realizing that the government just plain doesn't care/doesn't really care for the common citizen anyway. Water quality is such a difficult problem, yet the government is consistently incompetent. They aren't going to magically pull quality work out of their ass from nowhere just for some people they don't even like. The east coast has a higher mortality rate than the rest of the country because of lead exposure. The idea that water has no effect on you is quantifiably false.

oedipusaurus_rex

Water is the huge problem that no one is talking about. I kinda hate to post this in a conspiracy sub because you guys have a reputation as nutters (sometimes well deserved to be fair).

The United States is overtaxing it's aquifers. This is bad because what happens when they are overtaxed is the pore spaces in which the water existed get compacted and the aquifer is no longer able to recharge. The Ogallala supplies a lot of the central and western US and it is going to be used up in the next 50ish years. The land around Las Vegas is subsiding due to all the water that is being pulled out of the ground. That's not the only place it's happening. It's dropped as much as 20 feet in certain parts of California.

Lake Meade is at the lowest point it's been since the Hover Dam was built and the reservoir filled. The government is doing everything they can to fix this problem, up to and including insanely restrictive laws such as making the collection of rainwater illegal since it removes the water from the watershed.

Eventually we're going to have to start desalinating sea water. The problem with desalinization is that the byproducts include hypersaline solution that is toxic to all known life. What do you do with that? If you dump it back in the ocean you create dead zones. If you pump it down into the ground it contaminates aquifers. We basically have to treat that shit like toxic waste, and NIMBYs ruin toxic waste dumps with frivolous law suits that last until the sites collapse (as they are supposed to - this locks the toxic waste in solid rock that acts as an aquiclude (usually rock salt or clay - these blocks the movement of water and protect the waste from groundwater)) which forces us to dump in less safe environments.

TLDR: We're using too much water. Once it's gone we can't get groundwater back. If we start pulling from the ocean, we have to deal with toxic waste.

zx1

Or you could build mass condensation plants that will take all the salt, heavy metals and plastics out of the ocean water and largely make it drinkable for everyone.

oedipusaurus_rex

There are still problems with waste storage with this method, not to mention how energy intensive it is compared to desalinization via osmotic filters.

I guess you could sort through the waste to get any useful things out of it, but then you are running into the same problems that you have with recycling centers. A good deal of recycled crap ends up in dumps anyway since they usually aren't able to recycle junk faster than it comes in. Storage is at a premium and input > output basically. The same is true of desalinization waste in any economically viable plants.