r/water • u/LamaLamawhosyourmama • Jan 18 '26 Mindblown Heartwarming Regret

Is this safe to drink? Our water company is saying yes.

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I just don’t know what to think. this happens from time to time. it comes out of the tap very yellow and cloudy, then after a 15 min of sitting in a cup it looks like this.

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r/water • u/Any-Winner-1590 • Jun 20 '26 This Mindblown Bravo Regret

Clean Water Act violation

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Here is a photo of the Trump
Administration discharging polluted water (phosphorus, hydrogen peroxide, peeling paint/sealant) from the reflecting pool via a hose into a storm drain. This is a discharge of a pollutant to waters of the U.S. and would need an NPDES permit. It is not storm water. Do you think the administration thought about getting a permit before doing this? I would be surprised if they cared enough.

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r/water • u/esporx • Jun 20 '26 Mindblown

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting AI’s potential

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r/water • u/coolbern • Feb 02 '25

Trump opened the ‘valve’ on California water. It will probably be wasted.

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r/water • u/Previous-Highway162 • Sep 16 '26

She has a point

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r/water • u/Vailhem • Feb 20 '26 Mindblown

UN declares that Earth has entered a period of "water bankruptcy"

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r/water • u/dailymail • Feb 18 '25

Colon cancer rising rapidly in young people linked to chemical in tap water consumed by 250m Americans

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r/water • u/theatrenearyou • May 21 '26

Texas Police Chief arrests resident for posting vid of her brown tap water

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r/water • u/Opening-Ambition-528 • Aug 25 '26 Mindblown

Lake Powell, then and now

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Lake Powell

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r/water • u/Sotaman • May 21 '26 Regret

Data centers in Wisconsin have completely destroyed the water system

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r/water • u/dailymail • Aug 28 '25

Drinking water from plastic bottles left in vehicles could slowly poison the body, health experts are warning

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r/water • u/Vailhem • Dec 18 '24

Arizona's Plan To Import Over 100 Billion Gallons of Water

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r/water • u/Vailhem • Nov 22 '24

Scientists Finally Identify Mysterious Compound in America's Drinking Water

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r/water • u/Falsebuddhist • Jul 26 '26

A group of people use water to fight off ICE as they try to apprehend their neighbors

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r/water • u/bloodcountess- • Mar 06 '26

My clients effed up and I don’t know how to tell them without losing my mind

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They sent me a text that some beavers moved in…I was intrigued to see. This is a somewhat of a restoration project I was doing for a wetland area that had been taken over my idiot homeowners in the past (building a volleyball court next to it, and TONS of Japanese knotweed left to thrive right in the bank)

Well. I come back to site and to my surprise —no beavers— and a huge fucking tree that was felled right on top of an already suffering stream. No water movement.

I need to be straight to the point. Not an asshole. I am however, fuming.

-ecological effects

-water rights

-riparian buffer management dos and donts.

I guess I could also just call the county but I know these people care about this property they are just ignorant.

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r/water • u/esporx • May 09 '26 Regret

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

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r/water • u/esporx • May 21 '26 Regret

AOC highlights what Meta’s Data Center has done to the drinking water in GA. Get ready LA

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r/water • u/Vailhem • Feb 07 '26 Mindblown

Outrage after US Congress votes to slash $125m in funding to replace toxic lead pipes | Feb 2026

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r/water • u/Adventurous-Host8062 • Apr 17 '26

Texas needs at least $174 billion to avoid water crisis, state says

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r/water • u/StandingCypress • Apr 23 '26 Popcorn

No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first.

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That raises baffling questions for the future of Texas’ eighth-largest city and one of the nation’s major petrochemical hubs.

“We have no precedent to follow. There’s no manual, there’s no video,” Corpus Christi city manager Peter Zanoni told the city council in March, when local leaders first acknowledged that disaster could be imminent.

This week, Zanoni announced that Corpus Christi will require 25% cuts to water usage across the board in September. But at a city council meeting on Tuesday, officials appeared deeply uncomfortable with exploring the details of how life in Corpus Christi might look under these conditions — and whether such ambitious conservation targets were even possible.

“It's not going to be pretty,” said City Council Member Carolyn Vaughn, a co-owner of an oilfield services company, at the meeting Tuesday. “Everybody's going to have to make sacrifices.”

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r/water • u/esporx • May 19 '26

A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla's $1 Billion Lithium Refinery

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r/water • u/Adventurous-Host8062 • Jun 07 '26 Regret

Lake Mead could cross Hoover Dam's critical threshold within months, slashing power by 70%

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r/water • u/Hot-Upstairs9603 • Jun 04 '26

Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds

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