They'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!
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Meanwhile, it looks like some federal intervention, e.g., Army Corp of Engineers is likely needed.
More seriously, this is what we get when politicians chase "culture issues" and don't actually govern, and people care more about revenge on groups they don't like than electing people who will actually govern.
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.
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.
"Should" implies it's their responsibility, making them the National Bureau in Charge of Municipal Water Supply. It would be nice if they could, but they can't do it for everyone.
It’s not a risk of contamination, it is that the treatment plant pumps can’t keep the water pressure up right now. Otherwise, river water is hopefully cleaner than what you’re trying to flush. Though in Jackson, MS, I wouldn’t take that as a given.
Over time, yes. Not so much a risk to humans but a risk to plumbing. As an example I have water risers on my fields that are fed by a lake. The horses also drink from this. Their water trough gets full of algae and moss. All the fittings I use have to be large enough to not get plugged up by the growth. I've tried using filters in the past but they plug up almost instantly.
Its future is already becoming reality in the watershed of the over-subscribed Colorado.
2022 is a remarkable year, one of a striking tipping point: in which a large number of climate change cautionary tales moved from speculative to the front page.
As with the rapid evolution of AI txt2image tools, the notable stories, milestones, data points, are coming too quickly to keep up with.
Jackson has its own specific problems, and they aren't drought-specific as others noted ITT;
but the story is nonetheless a useful addition to the growing list of examples of where our institutional and structural response to ecological and climatological challengs is grotesquely inadequate.
As in Kim Stanley Robinson's fantasies, hope seems to lie in something which today seems as unlikely as our current headlines did a few years ago: an intervention of some kind which puts actual decision-making power in the hands of policy makers and scientists who understand what is happening and the scale of response required to ride it out as a civilization.
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.
[+] [-] toss1|3 years ago|reply
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Meanwhile, it looks like some federal intervention, e.g., Army Corp of Engineers is likely needed.
More seriously, this is what we get when politicians chase "culture issues" and don't actually govern, and people care more about revenge on groups they don't like than electing people who will actually govern.
Seriously broken
[+] [-] bequanna|3 years ago|reply
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/
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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?
[+] [-] kurupt213|3 years ago|reply
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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https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-water-crisis-in...
[+] [-] sidewndr46|3 years ago|reply
> The city and state were both distributing bottled drinking water and non-potable water for toilets
Is there a risk to using untreated water from the river & reservoir to flush your toilets? Why would the city need to distribute toilet water?
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[+] [-] mech987|3 years ago|reply
Presumably they are shipping two types of water- potable and non-potable. The non-potable is less difficult to produce and ship.
You can flush a toilet by dumping a bucket of water into the bowl.
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2022 is a remarkable year, one of a striking tipping point: in which a large number of climate change cautionary tales moved from speculative to the front page.
As with the rapid evolution of AI txt2image tools, the notable stories, milestones, data points, are coming too quickly to keep up with.
Jackson has its own specific problems, and they aren't drought-specific as others noted ITT;
but the story is nonetheless a useful addition to the growing list of examples of where our institutional and structural response to ecological and climatological challengs is grotesquely inadequate.
As in Kim Stanley Robinson's fantasies, hope seems to lie in something which today seems as unlikely as our current headlines did a few years ago: an intervention of some kind which puts actual decision-making power in the hands of policy makers and scientists who understand what is happening and the scale of response required to ride it out as a civilization.
[+] [-] matt_s|3 years ago|reply
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.
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[+] [-] jgrowl|3 years ago|reply
Those at the bottom bring supplies to the top and maintain it.
Those at the top are tasked with seeing what is coming and making Wise decisions.
Those at the top forget about the needs of the bottom and instead focus only on vertical expansion.
Eventually the summit grows taller than what the base can sustain.
Then the workers at the bottom abandon the base.
The tower left unmaintained, collapses.
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