I'm just wondering what the heck is in our water supply.

welcome to austin

It's called sun shining through water vapour...
Someone should also ask that woman why she thinks "fall" (the season) is called "fall". Maybe she thinks it's America's tribute to Mark E Smith...

Keep fucking with those science textbooks, America!

Maybe I should have just revived the atheist's nightmare thread, but I was laughing too hard to think clearly.

Flint, Michigan, changes their water supply on the cheap, poisons a generation of children with lead.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/16/459983352/michigan-mayor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-lead-levels

http://www.vox.com/2015/12/15/10237054/flint-lead-poisoning

Goddamn fucking permanent Reaganism.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/17/cher-donates-water-bottles-flint-michigan

Just read some of the coverage on this. So fucking disgusted right now. This is some flagrant old fashioned all American evil right here. As my wife just said "this is some upton Sinclair shit'

good revive

possible fracking link:

http://markmaynard.com/2016/01/could-the-flint-water-crisis-have-its-origins-in-a-desire-to-increase-fracking-in-michigan/

My friend at work just wrote this:

http://www.autostraddle.com/how-road-salt-and-environmental-racism-caused-a-crisis-in-flint-324344/

where the hell was the federal guvmint all those months when Michigan was doing jackshit??

The ACLU of Michigan and other organizations filed suit today to ask a federal court to step in and secure access to safe drinking water for the people of Flint, Michigan.

Bad story here, but I can't believe the place is actually called Hoosick Falls.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/nyregion/fears-about-water-supply-grip-village-that-made-teflon-products.html

Thousands of documents detailing water testing practices over the past decade reveal: Despite warnings of regulators and experts, water departments in at least 33 cities used testing methods over the past decade that could underestimate lead found in drinking water; officials in two major cities—Philadelphia and Chicago—asked employees to test water safety in their own homes; two states—Michigan and New Hampshire—advised water departments to give themselves extra time to complete tests so that if lead contamination exceeded federal limits, officials could re-sample and remove results with high lead levels; some cities denied knowledge of the locations of lead pipes, failed to sample the required number of homes with lead plumbing or refused to release lead pipe maps, claiming it was a security risk....

In the nine years since the EPA last updated lead regulations, a substantial body of peer-reviewed science has shown no level of lead is safe for humans. Tiny amounts are associated with impaired development and behavioral problems in children, and exposure is linked to a propensity to commit violent crimes. Also in that time, peer-reviewed studies by EPA scientists and academics showed how testing methods that flout guidelines miss lead contamination. Some of these studies even stemmed from previous lead contamination crises, such as in Washington DC in 2001. "What on earth can you do when the environmental policemen at EPA have condoned open cheating on the water lead rule for more than a decade now?" said (Marc) Edwards, the author of several studies.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/02/lead-water-testing-cheats-chicago-boston-philadelphia

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a45451/lead-water-crisis-33-cities/

Philadelphia residents have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia, claiming that it knowingly conducted construction projects that exponentially increased the risk of toxic levels of lead in residents’ tap water, and that the city failed to warn residents of the risks and actively concealed the problem through “negligent, reckless, and deceptive conduct,” according to Hagens Berman.

http://www.wdrb.com/story/32125201/hagens-berman-philadelphia-residents-sue-city-for-lead-contamination-in-citys-water-supply