Comment on If your city has terrible tap water, how do you fight for better tap water?

• gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Against what? What’s the problem? Lead contamination, heavy metal deposits, and e. coli/coliforms are all very different problems, with very different causes, requiring different solutions.

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  • LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if I wanted to make the water clean? Or even better, what if I wanted THE CITY to make the water clean and fight back against Nestle and Coca Cola and prevent them from stealing our water or dirtying it up?

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    • gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1. Prove the water is dirty.
      2. Prove the dirty water is dangerous.
      3. Prove the city is responsible for making the water safe.
      4. Contact the regulatory board responsible for overseeing water purification, show them your findings, and ask them to do their job.
      5. If no response occurs, contact the media and tell them your story.
      6. Use momentum from the media attention to build a campaign to have yourself elected into an oversight position.
      7. Hire smart engineers to figure out why the water is dirty and how best to clean it.
      8. Create a project plan to implement the engineers’ recommendations.
      9. Get your project plan approved.
      10. Raise the funds required to execute your project plan.
      11. Hire capable people to execute your plan and deal with anything that goes wrong.
      12. Hire honorable people to oversee the execution of your plan.

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      • atrizzy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You misunderstood. OP wants to do this all from the comfort of their basement.

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      • c0r1n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How do you prove the third one?

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You would grit tested then go to your local government’s meetings and ask them to address it.

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• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well step 1 would be to be informed as to the problem - both what and where. I hated the water in the hotel I stayed in in Denver. Then I moved here, and it was actually really good. Best I can guess is the hotel plumbing was to blame. If I fought back against the city I probably would’ve felt pretty silly, don’t you think?

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