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If only there were pipes to peoples homes to provide them with safe water for bathing and drinking.
by petermcneeley 8y ago
If only there were pipes to peoples homes to provide them with safe water for bathing and drinking.
- cujo 8y agoYes. Then I could stop showering with Perrier.
- suvelx 8y agoYou joke. But there are people that buy tankers of Evian and other 'high end' water to use through their plumbing. It wouldn't surprise me if they run it all through a water softener too.
- berberous 8y agoI find this hard to believe. Got a link?
- suvelx 8y agoUnfortunately not. The only evidence I can provide is I once knew the groundskeeper for a group of properties owned by the super rich. One of his responsibilities was accepting the deliveries. These properties were in a built up residential area.
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- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThat sounds impossibly expensive; I'm sure there's some of the super-rich that do it, but it sounds more like a glossy story than something ubiquitous. I would believe it if they "just" got tankers of clean water from elsewhere though. Plenty of people that have to survive off of water from tankers.
- johnvanommen 8y agoIn Las Vegas, they have plumbing for booze. Basically it's more practical to keep the booze in the back of the casino and plumb it into a network of bars, instead of keeping track of which bar is running out. Particularly when a single casino may have a hundred bars.
- 3chelon 8y agoThey have beer pipes in Belgium, too.
- abrowne 8y agoFrom a brewery in the historical center of Bruges to the outskirts IIRC. Which allows a working business better transport links so it can stay in the center to help avoid the city becoming completely Disneyland.
- benj111 8y agoMost places keep the kegs in a centralised location and pipe it around, whatever the size. I'd be surprised if the US were much different. You don't want delivery men rolling barrels around hotels etc, and you want to keep the beer cool. Plus bar space tends to be at a premium.
- moonka 8y ago*Offer not valid in Flint, MI.
- rootusrootus 8y agoThe most interesting thing to me about the Flint water crisis is that it's mostly PR. Which isn't to say the water isn't crap. Just that it's by far not the only contaminated water in the US. It gets all the press, though.
- moonka 8y agoThe most interesting thing to me is that after 4 years it's not fixed. So I'm not sure that all the press is doing much good.
- 3chelon 8y agoI just wonder how our ancestors did it. Not only did they survive without plastic bottles, but they even survived the last 99.99% of biological history without plumbing! I drives me mad. We solved the problem over a century ago. The ancient Greeks and Romans even solved it in their time. The problem was reinvented by marketing, and everyone fell for it, to the point that kids are told to take plastic water bottles to school (despite the existence of water taps there), and public announcements at train and tube stations warn people not to travel without a plastic bottle, in case they have to survive without a sip of water for an hour. It's like we're all living in the Sahara desert. It's insane. From a marketing PoV it must be the single most successful campaign in history. And given its success, and massive profits, they should be the ones whom foot the bill for cleaning up the godawful mess they've created.
- petermcneeley 8y agoI agree with you however as "moonka" says below there are some legit problems with tap water in certain areas. Not to mention that they have basically removed public water fountains from most locations.
- 3chelon 8y agoSure, I know there are entire continents where the water is unsafe to drink; my point is about the developed world where we largely solved the problem and then unsolved it again. Your point about removing drinking fountains is a case in point.
- petermcneeley 8y agoYa its all part of a larger discussion about the disappearance of the Public Good. Capitalism replacing common utility.
- 3chelon 8y agoI'm all for capitalism. But punitive taxation can be used very effectively to reign in unbridled capitalism. Taxing plastic production, and properly rewarding recycling or reuse schemes would be have a pretty big impact to the bottom lines of some companies and I think we'd be amazed by how quick they solved the problem.
- sethammons 8y agoIn the town I went to primary and secondary school, the tap water fizzed and tasted terrible. I think nice, reusable containers are key. Everyone in my household has two water bottles. Maybe one gets replaced a year, usually because it got lost. Even then, you need a decent filter or other way to get non-gross water. Fortunately, we are now on a well and the water is fantastic.