The Mississippi is also the open sewer of the Midwest.
And our sewer and water board is incompetent and corrupt ( I love public infra. This one sucks )
As a result. I don’t drink that water directly and filter it.
I think that will be more and more common. At least in the US.
Shouldn't be a problem. Might I interest you in some new water?
If you look at the list, even Brita doesn't claim that their pitcher filter the really nasty stuff. At most they "help to reduce". It looks like they are really designed only to remove the chlorine taste.
Their "Faucet Mount Filters" looks a bit more effective.
The S&WB almost needs it's own discussion thread. Not sure your average American HN reader can even comprehend the level of incompetence we have to deal with from that group.
Karl Marx showed us 150 years ago that a government under capitalism is a capitalist government.