Meanwhile... the state government passed the largest income tax cut in its history just a few months ago. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi/articles...
Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
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Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
nobody is ignoring it. please take the time to learn about this situation before making generalizations.
The situation seems to be: inept local govt refused to pay for services they are responsible for providing because they didn’t want to raise taxes. So, they begged for outside money (again, for something that is their responsibility) and when that didn’t work stuck by their “do nothing and blame the state” strategy which ultimately created a humanitarian crisis that leaves federal taxpayers on the hook. Did I miss an…
yeah, you missed pretty much everything.
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
30 minutes for every new filter? Or every time?
Every time. They concentrate the pfas in the water, which bleeds through the cartridge as it sits there between uses, meaning all the diffusion breakthrough has to be flushed every time. These filters only slow down the contamination relative to water flow rate. Think Of them as big chromatography columns or frontal analysis columns
Wouldn't a carbon filter work better then? If I understand them right it will keep the pfas stuck inside itself and not let it diffuse.
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#74This reporter has been writing great informative articles on this for years
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-water-crisis-in...
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every time. They concentrate the pfas in the water, which bleeds through the cartridge as it sits there between uses, meaning all the diffusion breakthrough has to be flushed every time. These filters only slow down the contamination relative to water flow rate. Think Of them as big chromatography columns or frontal analysis columns
Wouldn't a carbon filter work better then? If I understand them right it will keep the pfas stuck inside itself and not let it diffuse.
The filters are carbon. Every filter has breakthrough. And the filter components themselves are contaminated prior to construction. This stuff is literally everywhere
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#76No post body was provided.
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#77Even 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?
Does anyone have a map of US cities without safe drinking water? I can't keep track at this point. Why isn't the EPA on this? They should have a dashboard or something by now.
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#78No post body was provided.
Re: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
nobody is ignoring it. please take the time to learn about this situation before making generalizations.
The situation seems to be: inept local govt refused to pay for services they are responsible for providing because they didn’t want to raise taxes. So, they begged for outside money (again, for something that is their responsibility) and when that didn’t work stuck by their “do nothing and blame the state” strategy which ultimately created a humanitarian crisis that leaves federal taxpayers on the hook. Did I miss an…
here's one example where they've been trying for at least a decade: https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2013/dec/11/whats-boil...