• robocall
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    13 days ago

    “richest country in the world” serves you smelly brown water insisting it’s safe to drink 🤮

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      13 days ago

      That buys into the idea that humans can just live anywhere they like, without tradeoffs and costs.

      A vital resource like drinking water is not available everywhere, and if you want to live in a place where there isn’t any, there are costs of water treatment and reliability.

      There were a bunch of articles in the last 2 years about Sonoma County’s diminshing water resources.

      Some towns having to truck in water from elsewhere, although search is failing to dig up the particular example I was thinking of.

      https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/07/17/drying-up-sonoma-countys-quiet-disaster-you-need-to-know-about/