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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
 

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[–] 63 points 3 years ago (1 child)

In USA we drink beer directly from the faucet, suck on that China /s

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago

    To be 100 percent fair, tap water in China has shown a concerning level of trace amounts of heavy metals (Not the Led Zeppelin kind, unfortunately) and is often slightly worse than in the U.S., in China its more understandable given that the nation is still a developing country containing over 16 percent of humanity and installing and cleaning new state of the art pipes and irrigating water and purifying minerals from water is extremely complex and tedious work, the Chinese government at least has greatly improved water treatment over the past few decades, continues to do so, has a very strong drive to provide for its people, and has spent billions of dollars introducing tap water to Tibet, which previously didn't have running water until recently.

    Where as the U.S. if anything probably wants to get rid of tap water because "its communist!"

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Maybe you would have save drinking water in China, but at what cost?!

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This goes through my mind every time I read, hear or think the words "but at what cost?"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45F0fyXl52Q

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    MICHIGAN PROVIDES YUMMY PISS AT THE SINK WATER

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Look at that trickle down.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago

    Professor Wei? More like Professor Bae 🥰😘

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's in there too, but probably not giving it the colour. Probably just general dirt and sediment doing that.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    No, you can simply look it up.

    Lead poisoned water is orange-brown or "rusty". Lead colours water easily.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can indeed look it up.

    https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/sources/water.htm

    You cannot see, taste, or smell lead in drinking water.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    That is pure lead, something that rarely happens, lead will bind to other elements and metals it comes in contact with.

    Also from the CDC, they list how the amount of lead, and the subsequent colour change, is affected by other variables.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    TIL what lead poisoned water looks like

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This isn't bad, the water in the worst places in the US is almost completely brown or black. That's how saturated with heavy metals it is.

    Guess what areas that happens to.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    also, please, this picture is disgusting, can you spoiler this thing?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    They would have been executed within days of the issue being discovered probably. This would've been resolved within weeks.

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