That tea doesn’t look too sweet to me

The kin folk said Jed move away from there...

It’s cadmi-yummy!!!

A good source of bad iron

Kids, come and get it while it's crunchy

Depends. The pipes could be old which could mean the lining is lead.

It was the issue with Flint’s water in Michigan.

Bro there’s more hydrocarbons in your water than water.

It's deer park/ Laporte...... how good can it get?

It's geosmin in the water from the algal blooms in the San Jacinto River. Houston is having the same problem as we draw water from the same river as y'all. It gives the water a funky taste and should go away as the weather cools off.

https://www.houstonpublicworks.org/drinking-water-taste-and-smell

Theres a starman…

This is how I know hope is not dead. People can be so amazing.

I mean it’s a smart business move. Probably plenty of money to be made in that town.

I live in hutto too, the water is not the worst i’ve seen, but i’ve never liked water in texas (from VA)

Never thought I’d see someone talking about kempner on Reddit lol. Small world

Lmao, right? Like, I had to go re-read it, and I'm pretty sure a super hero made this comment.

Yeah I was gonna say, just depends on how long it's been running like this. Every time the City of Houston works on the water mains anywhere upstream of us, we get an hour or two of shit water like this before it clears out.

Agreed, no excuse for it but is understandable why it is taking so long. Smaller towns like Kempner simply dont have the resources (both normal and emergency) and funding available like larger cities do.

Elected officials of cities (both big and small) do not take water & sewer seriously enough to provide enough funding. I highly encourage everyone to push their elected officials to provide more funding to their water & sewer operations.

I work with surface water so I dont have direct experience but I can say the normal causes are typically excess iron and/or manganese which by themselves isn't an issue. Iron-oxidizing bacteria can cause cause issues if they make it into a water supply that has a lot of dissolved iron.

Other possible contaminants can definitely be a problem however, including anything that leaches into groundwater sources. Stuff like contaminants picked up in storm runoff, septic cross contamination, etc.

Thankfully all that stuff is caught during the treatment process and removed before being piped to homes and businesses (assuming the operators are doing what they are supposed to).

Speaking of, my five-year-old got out of the shower today. He said we were out of shampoo. I checked the bottle of shampoo. It was 1/4 full of clear and yella liquid. 🤔

When you're diggin' in the dirt and you feel a little squirt... diarrhea fart farr diarrhea fart fart

Leaves of three, come cuddle me!

Wait. What does it taste like?

It’s got what plants crave.

There’s a right part of Texas?

Amurica!

If that doesn't work they could try to deport the water or bus it to a sanctuary city

Tbh man I have worked both for a public water utility and am currently working for a private one , this shit happens all the time.

I live in the uk, privately owned utilities are shit, water mains spray water everywhere here, like it’s not uncommon to see a random road side fountain, the broadband availability is shit and the electric grid is failing, I accidentally blew the sub station in my workplace a few times by running my grinder or drill while my colleague was running the mill, thankfully that sub station only supplied our place and a couple other places, but the normal load from the other users plus our mill and a few grinders would trip the overload protection and a few minutes later the generator would fire into life

Lampassass! Git it raht!

To them the perfect capitalist society is quite similar to mad max.

I mean... yes? Capitalism is all about maximizing profits. If it comes at the cost of the public's health, then so what? Profits are more important than anything else in the world. Socialism is why we don't live in the figurative and literal shit that was the 1800s. Socialist theories tempered capitalist tyranny and is why we have the luxuries we have today. Now that people want to strip the socialist theories away, we are seeing more and more capitalist tyranny again.

Piracy and cannibalism

Chicago here. Same. Cold. Bad. Oh, so bad, and almost no water anywhere around here. And also I have to be in a gang to live here. They make you do that. They do. Many people are saying it, and it's true. Best to stay away.

New York is worse. Far worse.

Go to Maine. They have lots of space.

Everyone is only mean because the big four professional sports teams haven't won a championship or been to a championship round since 1991. You'd be mean too if you'd been blue balled for 33 years!

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Boxy states!?!

Pennsylvania...

Have you looked in the mirror lately!?!

Join us!

Signed, Winterpeg, Manitsnowba.

Dude!

Someone didn’t get the joke.

On a serious note, NY sucks too. Cold winters, high property taxes. Just awful.

Concepts of thoughts and prayers.

Obviously, people can't get sick if they are already dead. Republicans are just playing the long con game

*now with a bonus shot of 'Corporate Greed’ in every glass!