EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards • Hacker News Board

Re: EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards

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Post by syntaxing » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 3:22 PM UTC

csdreamer7 wrote: post #19

syntaxing wrote: post #8

It’s a shame. I have a RO filter because I don’t trust the government to maintain water quality. I know plenty of people with the double RO filter for their well water. Its really a travesty what water quality has become.

> It’s a shame. I have a RO filter because I don’t trust the government to maintain water quality. I know plenty of people with the double RO filter for their well water. Its really a travesty what water quality has become. Last I checked the Federal government does not manage private wells. There are exempt under the Clean Water Act.

Where do you think pollution in private wells come from…

Re: EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards

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Post by Throaway152 » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 11:44 PM UTC

accengaged wrote: post #15

australia - we drink straight from the tap. its practically filtered

I think the USA is the only 1st world country with legitimate problems in the potable tap water department.

Well, them and Canadian Indigenous reserves lol. But those have been described as 3rd world anyways.

Re: EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards

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Post by RiverStone » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 5:42 PM UTC

syntaxing wrote: post #8

It’s a shame. I have a RO filter because I don’t trust the government to maintain water quality. I know plenty of people with the double RO filter for their well water. Its really a travesty what water quality has become.

You should use a RO or carbon filter even if the government is doing everything right.

Chlorine needs to stay in city water to disinfect all the distribution pipes throughout a city. But at point of use, you should not be drinking/bathing in chlorine or chlorine disinfection byproducts.