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Why is this article ‘flagged’?

• anonymouskimmer 3y ago
  I would guess for the reasons insonable wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846322 > I don't really get the purpose of this article other than to maybe rile some people up. It offers no analysis and only one idea Kooky ideas can play on HN, but partisan and blame-game stuff tends not to. Based on what lostdog wrote, the kooky ideas also seem to ignore the reason the situation exists in the first place (ignoring Chesterton's Fence), and thus the article doesn't add to aggregate knowledge, but adds to misinformation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3584644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3584644 > > But upgrading the urban wastewater-treatment facilities surrounding the bay would eliminate nutrient pollution, permitting more delta water to be directed to California’s farms and cities—a lot more water. > The main reason for "flushing" fresh water into the delta is to preserve the delta ecosystem. Without putting fresh water in the river, the salt water from the Bay works its way up the delta. > I tried a few searches to understand whether this wastewater issue is real or not, and the main "nutrient pollution" issue that comes up is not human waste, but instead fertilizer runoff from agriculture [1,2]. A few other commenters offer additional critiques. Ultimately this article fell afoul of the first rule for article submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.