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People with experience working in and around municipal water infrastructure: Do you drink tap water? Are there times when you do not? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This question is obviously intended for those that live in places where tap water is "safe to drink."

I live in Southern California, where I'm at the end of a long chain of cities. Occasionally, the tap smells of sulfur, hardness changes, or it tastes... odd. I'm curious about the perspective of people that are directly involved and their reasoning.

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I trust the city government with my water much much more than companies trying to save every penny bottling water.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And I'm more likely able to get the people responsible for poor quality water or death in result of this in jail over the likelihood of sending billionaire CEOs with their golden parachutes to a minimum security vacation "prison".

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

whoopsie daisy, we shipped 500 million bottles of tainted water, "we're sorry". Meanwhile if a city did that it'd be national news for years.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While I'm a huge fan of municipal water (I live in the city that invented it), lots of cities have horribly mismanaged their water supply, often from privatization, but not exclusively. See Jackson Mississippi.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120166328/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Oh not saying it doesn't happen at all, but it's blown out of proportion for the most of the US. Main point is exactly that, when a city fucks up it becomes national news, if Pepsi fucked up it's bottling (which comes from city sources anyway), they say "Oh no, we're sorry"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

cough cough Flint cough