2022, USA, 100k+ town with no drinking water. Indefinitely. We've truly peaked as a civilization.
indefinitely is a bit extreme. it should say "until pumps are fixed and service is restored"
Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
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#22Even regular tap water in many US cities is contaminated with PFAS and other pollutants. When water does reach a house, only about 5-20% is used for cooking or drinking - the rest for watering plants, showers, toilet flushing, washing. Is it better to just outfit each home with an under-sink reverse osmosis machine and pipe in raw reservoir water?
under sink would be too inconvenient
and all the RO membrane cartridges, or millipore filter cartridges are contaminated with PFAS, anyhow. it's literally everywhere. We have to run ours for 30 minutes before taking the ultra-pure water at the lab to drop the levels down to 'baseline'. Otherwise, the built up levels blow out the instruments.
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#23They've got no water in one of the largest cities, but those state officials are definitely on top of making sure that those uppity females have no access to reproductive healthcare, and that city is mostly not white people -- they've got their priorities to take care of! Meanwhile, it looks like some federal intervention, e.g., Army Corp of Engineers is likely needed. More seriously, this is what we get when politic…
I think you’re confusing the responsibilities of states and local municipalities. It may surprise you to learn that Jackson is actually led by a quite liberal mayor: https://www.jacksonms.gov/departments/office-of-the-mayor/
The mayor has been begging* for funds from the state for a long time now to fix the problem though. That being said, I'm sure there is lots of local and state mismanagement that would go into causing such an embarrassment.
* https://www.wlbt.com/2022/02/17/jackson-faces-uphill-battle-...
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#24They've got no water in one of the largest cities, but those state officials are definitely on top of making sure that those uppity females have no access to reproductive healthcare, and that city is mostly not white people -- they've got their priorities to take care of! Meanwhile, it looks like some federal intervention, e.g., Army Corp of Engineers is likely needed. More seriously, this is what we get when politic…
I think you’re confusing the responsibilities of states and local municipalities. It may surprise you to learn that Jackson is actually led by a quite liberal mayor: https://www.jacksonms.gov/departments/office-of-the-mayor/
For @toss1 maybe, for me I was kind of expecting it.
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#25Woah, Paolo Bacigalupi wrote "Water knife" only 7 years ago and I thought it depicts a scenario our grandkids will face. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife
Mississippi is not in drought. At least not drought of water.
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#26Woah, Paolo Bacigalupi wrote "Water knife" only 7 years ago and I thought it depicts a scenario our grandkids will face. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife
Its kinda bonkers that golf courses and grass lawns are things allowed to thrive in areas of the US where they are not naturally occurring.
I also think its kinda crazy that humans have brought agriculture to a desert via irrigation and think that's sustainable. This is the type of thing where Federal laws/rulings are needed because there are like 4 states over consuming the water.
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#27Woah, Paolo Bacigalupi wrote "Water knife" only 7 years ago and I thought it depicts a scenario our grandkids will face. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife
Its kinda bonkers that golf courses and grass lawns are things allowed to thrive in areas of the US where they are not naturally occurring. I also think its kinda crazy that humans have brought agriculture to a desert via irrigation and think that's sustainable. This is the type of thing where Federal laws/rulings are needed because there are like 4 states over consuming the water.
Irrigation agriculture has been a primary source of life in places like Arizona for millennia. Reducing it down to "irrigation is unsustainable" is both incorrect and unproductive. It can be made sustainable, as long as we understand the system and respect appropriate limits within that. It's likely those changes will need to be larger than anyone wants, but they're still possible in a less dramatic way than "everyone is forcibly removed from the area".
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#28They've got no water in one of the largest cities, but those state officials are definitely on top of making sure that those uppity females have no access to reproductive healthcare, and that city is mostly not white people -- they've got their priorities to take care of! Meanwhile, it looks like some federal intervention, e.g., Army Corp of Engineers is likely needed. More seriously, this is what we get when politic…
Are you seriously saying that people in Jackson are not capable to taking care of themselves? And they need the state to do it for them?
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A spin down filter solves for this. Manual ones are $50-$65, nice automated self cleaning ones are $175-$250. Great for well water imho to take the load off of disposable sediment filters further down the system. Depending on the make, you can typically swap out the stainless steel screens to change how aggressive your filtering is.
I might give this a shot. I've used them on wells and they are great for sediment. I wasn't sure if it would work the same with the moss but if it works that would save me from using the tank pellets.
If you have control over where your water supply is within the lake, and you're up for it, I recommend introducing lily pads, cattails, or watercress in the vicinity. Those flora will absorb the nutrients algae requires to grow, inhibiting its growth. Non uniform foreign debris near water intakes is just an overall pain :/