[NEWS] Annoying Orange signs order to dismantle Clean Water Rule

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Rare picture of Flint resident drinking tap water

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[Master Matthew²]

relevant

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[MoltenKitten]

Ok what the hell?

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INVEST IN WATER FILTERS

[Ceist]

https://www.epa.gov/cleanwaterrule/what-clean-water-rule-does
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=navigable%20waters&oq=navigable%20water&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.1994j0j7

I'm linking these to help everyone understand the situation a little more. This executive order doesn't repeal the Clean Water ACT, just a specific rule among the act that defines what geographical waterways are protected by the act itself.
After careful reading of the the Clean Water Rule and the effects of the executive order, the repeal affects navigable waterways and their tributaries, nearby waters considerably close to the main waterway being affected. It affects the protection of prairie potholes, Carolina and Delmarva bays, Pocosins, and Vernal Pools. Affects protection of streams (and specific types of ditches.) Maintains status of your storm runoff water (which is most likely heavily polluted.) Affects the limitation water brown townysis.

Almost all of the above geographical waterways/sources were protected under the Clean Water Rule, but because of the repeal, they are free game for the dumping of pollution (within reasonable margin.) However any pollution can seriously harm the environment. This will hurt farmers, ecosystems, and ultimately the economy. If some of these bodies of water were to be polluted such as a prairie pothole, you could see massively reduced crop yields, dead wildlife, and poor game hunting.

Tributaries and their waterways will still be protected by the Clean Water Act, but the rest is no longer protected thanks to the rule only specifying them as being protected.

We're not going to see Flint like conditions in the United States, as this does not affect how our water is treated and how it's transported. However, we're going to have a lot of unhappy farmers and hunters. Ultimately this executive order is dangerous for our nation in the long run, the affects won't be felt immediately. In two years, I expect crop yields of the US to drop significantly, so much so you can see certain fresh vegetation and grain prices skyrocket in your store. Examples would be plenty of grains such as rice, barley, wheat and vegetables such as corn, beats, and carrots.

Pictures of some of the geographical formations I talked about


Prairie potholes. Notice the first picture, it is just a meter away from farmland.



Pocosins



Vernal pools


Carolina Bays.

[Rally]

it's completely relevant this time. not only is Annoying Orange not making any effort to fund the crCIA repair process, but he's actually signing a bill that will work backwards and allow for the same kind of exploits that lead to the crCIA in the first place

I don't get it. The water quality in Flint was tested to be safe like 4 days after Annoying Orange was sworn into office. What is he supposed to do? Funnel another 5 million dollars into a glorified pipe replacement program? Flint isn't Annoying Orange's problem

[IkeTheGeneric]

It gets really annoying when I open up a thread and see your spiel about Flint.

It's a thread about clean water and you didn't expect somebody to mention flint?

The situation over there is pretty bad, I don't get why it's such a big problem to talk about it. Gotta get your marks in to complain about the resident black guy, eh?

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I don't get it. The water quality in Flint was tested to be safe like 4 days after Annoying Orange was sworn into office. What is he supposed to do? Funnel another 5 million dollars into a glorified pipe replacement program? Flint isn't Annoying Orange's problem

the water source isn't the issue in flint, it is indeed the pipes that need to be replaced. the water you're gonna get from the source is much safer than the water you'd be getting from the tap.

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the water source isn't the issue in flint, it is indeed the pipes that need to be replaced. the water you're gonna get from the source is much safer than the water you'd be getting from the tap.

There are 5000+ more systems in America still using the same lead pipes that flint uses. We've been using them forever without issue. The poor water quality was caused by MDEQ when they told FWTP to stop maintaining corrosion inhibition. The issue has since been fixed, the people responsible went to court, and the lead levels have returned to safe levels.

The lead pipes are being replaced, because it's a good idea, not because they're still poisoning people. If the pipes were to blame, you'd have a lot more problems than 100,000 people. You'd be looking at closer to 10,000,000 people nationally.

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the local gov. decided it would be a good idea to switch to a cheaper water supplier with stuff water quality which just ruined the pipes and causing near-irreversible damage. even if they switched to good water, it's still forgeted, the pipes needing to be replaced at a great expense (though i haven't kept too much of an eye on the situation so they may have already did this)

it's not just the water that's the massive problem with the town, you know what they do there? murder, rape, sell some drugs, murder some more, and then collect food stamps

flint's paying the price for their own political corruption and the absolutely forgeted state of their stuffty local government. no tax base, corruption everywhere, no efficiency. they get rich off the money that they SHOULD be investing infrastructure and they just end up causing massive suffering and death when they amass the political leverage to remain in charge, it's the same all over the world

forget that place