Rural America’s Own Private Flint: Polluted Water Too Dangerous to Drink

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You know what fukk all those people. Don’t go begging for liberal environmental protections now. Drink that poison and end up with retarded kids. You get what you vote for. :ufdup:

Rural America’s Own Private Flint: Polluted Water Too Dangerous to Drink


More in the link than I can post. Great article.

ARMENIA, Wis. — The groundwater that once ran cool and clean from taps in this Midwestern farming town is now laced with contaminants and fear. People refuse to drink it. They won’t brush their teeth with it. They dread taking showers.

Rural communities call it their own, private Flint— a diffuse, creeping water crisis tied to industrial farms and slack regulations that for years has tainted thousands of residential wells across the Midwest and beyond.

Now, fears and frustration over water quality and contamination have become a potent election-year issue, burbling up in races from the fissured bedrock here in Wisconsin to chemical-tainted wells in New Hampshire to dwindling water reserves in Arizona. President Trump’s actions to loosen clean water rules have intensified a battle over regulations and environmental protections unfolding on the most intensely local level: in people’s own kitchen faucets.

In Wisconsin and other Midwestern states where Republicans run the government, environmental groups say that politicians have cut budgets for environmental enforcement and inspections and weakened pollution rules. In Iowa, for example, the Republican-led Legislature dismissed a package of bills that would have blocked any new large-scale hog operations until the state cleaned up its nitrogen-laden rivers and streams.
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Y'all turned a blind eye to these companies bribing your politicians and let them frack your grounds contaminating your groundwaters instead y'all should have ran them the fukk outta town at gunpoint before anything happened... but alas...:manny: maybe y'all could ask trump to make it great again...:troll:
 

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Farmers are fukking up a lot of shyt. They’ve been doing it for decades. That’s why they vote republican, because if democrats are in charge they’re going to end up owing so much in fines for all the polluting they’ve done.
Breh have you seen this clip on the fracking in the central valley that 60 minutes did:


The lack of disregard for land just had me :dwillhuh:

It's so bad that NASA can run a pair of satellites over the central valley and gauge how much water content is left:
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NASA Analysis: 11 Trillion Gallons to Replenish California Drought Los
 

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Breh have you seen this clip on the fracking in the central valley that 60 minutes did:


The lack of disregard for land just had me :dwillhuh:

It's so bad that NASA can run a pair of satellites over the central valley and gauge how much water content is left:
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NASA Analysis: 11 Trillion Gallons to Replenish California Drought Los


I hadn't seen this one but I work in environmental permitting and am a certified water operator for our facilities. The farmers have contaminated our water so bad we have to provide bottle water. Down in Hanford the water is just as bad as anywhere. Don't ever drink that sulfur infested water. Then they'll have the nerve to get mad at us cause we're trying to follow regulations.
 

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Country going broke. Straight desperation.

This shyt is really bout to be a wrap :wow:
 
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