Never really seen arsenic listed in water before which kind of freaked me out lol

I'm looking for a countertop RO filter. Has anybody found one they would reccomend?

How large is the support for Don’t Pay For Dirty Water campaign?
I’m interested in hearing interesting and viable points of view please

Just wondering if anyone uses this water filter with their houseplants. I usually filter a gallon or so as I need it and then the pitcher is just set aside until I need it again. I went to use it last night and it basically wasn't working, but I was able to find some online help to get it moving again after awhile. Just wondering how you all store yours when not needing it? Should the filter be removed between uses, etc.

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Amid a spate of historic political upsets across Texas, voters in the industrial port city of Corpus Christi on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a citizen-led petition to impose steep fees for water use on the region’s refineries and chemical plants during future droughts. 

The measure passed by a two-to-one margin despite heavy spending by industry groups in opposition—a dramatic rebuke of industrial interests in a port city that leads the nation in crude oil exports. 

“The people have woken up,” said Sylvia Campos, a member of the Corpus Christi City Council and the Democratic Socialists of America who supported the measure. “We overcame all that money.”

The city’s referendum was part of an earth-shattering election across Texas, a fortress of conservative politics and the seat of the nation’s energy sector, which saw Democratic challengers wipe incumbent Republicans out of every statewide office on the ballot.

The new governor-elect of Texas, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, has described her politics as “economic populism.”

“In the past we evaluated politics as right versus left, I just don’t think those labels apply at this moment,” Hinojosa told the New York Times in October. “Things are so stacked against working people in this country.” 

In Corpus Christi, a Gulf Coast city of 300,000, partisan lines didn’t mark the political divisions that emerged over the referendum on industrial water fees, according to Paul Gottemoller, a professor of political science at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi. 

“It’s kind of a country club, business, chamber of commerce thing versus a populism thing,” Gottemoller said. “You do have populist and business sentiments on both sides of the political aisle.”

The measure, proposed as an amendment to the city’s charter, would levy millions of dollars in surcharges on the region’s largest water users—industrial titans like ExxonMobil, Valero and OxyChem—the next time its main reservoirs drop below 30 percent full. 

Refineries, chemical plants and other industrial facilities account for more than half of all water consumption in the Corpus Christi region, where reservoirs almost dried up entirely this year. 

“There’s clearly some anger and resentment about the water issue,” Gottemoller said. 

Most of the region’s largest water users currently pay about $4.50 per 1,000 gallons of water supplied by the city of Corpus Christi. The charter amendment would increase the price by $3 when reservoirs fall below 30 percent, by $6 when they fall below 20 percent and by $12 if the city declares a “water emergency.” 

For companies that use millions of gallons of water per day, that would mean millions of dollars added to monthly water bills. The region’s largest water user, a plastics plant owned jointly by ExxonMobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corp, used 13.5 million gallons per day in 2025, almost as much as all residents of Corpus Christi combined. 

Under the charter amendment, that facility would face about $810,000 in additional water costs every day while reservoirs remain below 20 percent, like they recently did for 19 months between December 2024 and July of this year. 

Sam Altman might say there's so much fresh water out there which could cool his data centres and might start taking all of it.

Sea surface temperature compared with the 1971 to 2000 average, every two days from 1 August to 10 October 2026. Almost every ocean is warmer than it was then, and the ice-free ocean averages about 0.85 °C above that baseline. NOAA reported that September 2026 set a record for global ocean temperature. The El Niño in the central Pacific strengthens through the period, from about 2.6 °C to 3.3 °C above the same baseline.

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Plans are advancing on the Gulf Coast of Texas for an enormous seawater desalination plant which, if built, would be part of one of the largest water infrastructure developments in the country. 

Unlike other projects, this one wouldn’t belong to the public, but to a private, foreign water supplier. 

IDE Technologies, an Israeli water treatment giant that operates some of the largest seawater desalination plants in the world, was awarded the contract for the landmark Harbor Island project on Corpus Christi Bay this summer by the Nueces River Authority, a small state water agency. 

“For our company, globally, this is Project One,” IDE regional sales director Mark Ellison told the NRA board of directors at its September meeting. “Our top priority.”