Who wants to help setup a hackerspace next to the EPA HQ to scoop up all the newly-available talent?
As others have noted in other comment threads, EPA needs some serious cleaning. It is an agency that has gotten so large that it is no longer effective.
Our drinking water and rivers and lakes and air are becoming unsafe everywhere. We need EPA to focus on its core mission.
Trump is a results-oriented guy. If EPA is in charge of clean water, and you have Flint... the course of action is clear. Trump is a simpleton: just produce the results you are supposed to produce, and he'll go find some other heads to lop off.
Predictable action from a simple-minded guy.
That same amazon page has this for testing http://a.co/dVZweID which I've seen come up a lot when doing research, but it'll only tell you if something is in the water, not what.
I usually skim thesweethome.com for things like this, too.
http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-under-sink-water-filter... http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-water-filter-pitcher/#h...
For $15 it will be fun to play with, and roughly compare water sources like my home waer vs X-stage filtered water at Manylabs. No biological test tho, or identification of molecules.
Maybe create an open source dataset and protocol for enabling mapping this data globally?
(Email me if you want updates on my tinkering - tito@impossiblelabs.io)
For my second sink in my kitchen I have a 5 stage filter system. It goes through a UV light to kill living things, then a 3 charcoal filters, one for large particles, another for removing chlorine and the third for removing small particles. Then it does reverse osmosis before heading to the tap. As far as size, it takes up about 1m x 0.5m x 0.5m
Sounds like a solid system, ever tested it to see what difference it makes on a molecular level?
http://aqicn.org/city/california/san-francisco/san-francisco...
What makes you think the size of EPA is the cause of cases like Flint?
It's not as if the EPA has been growing unchecked; conservative politicians have been doing their best to gut its funding or render it toothless for decades now, going back at least as far as Reagan. If you're not happy with the current situation, it seems unlikely that continuing down the path of defunding the EPA will improve it.