No, it is not a band aid, it is the gold standard for water filtration. And not all water issues stem from bad governance. Sometimes there is just unwanted minerals in the water for natural reasons.
The gold standard for air filtration might be a military grade gas mask or a compressed oxygen tank, but if everyone had to wear those to breathe the air outside, I'd consider it a band aid solution.
How is that a reasonable comparison? You don't have to carry the RO filter on your back. You think about it maybe a couple times a year when you replace the filter. Plenty of people use water filters every day. If you told them that was like wearing a gas mask whenever you go outside, they'd look at you funny.
Until you remember that now nobody is going to be able to drink water from restaurants or their workplace or the tap at the park. And that you can't filter the vegetables you eat that have been watered with contaminated water.
Keep in mind, these restrictions have nothing to do with the environmental pollution but only the water treatment. So those veggies would still be contaminated with or without the regulation. If we moved to a paradigm of point of use purification, then the park, work, restaurant, etc would all have filters too.
Because I have no say in the plumbing used to get the water from the source to my home. Some of that infrastructure is older than I am. Whole home RO systems would still possibly flow through plumbing I wouldn't be happy with. Undersink RO systems at the primary place providing water that I ingest seems like the best place for me knowing the details about the plumbing from this new source.
And? You keep saying this like it's an answer to a question, but it's just not a useful one. Do you go through all of life deciding that you're going to do nothing because it's a bad governance problem? Do you honestly never make changes to things you can control just because it technically should be someone else's problem? Personally, I don't have time for that. If I can make improvements for things as a band-aid fix to something that will never get fixed in any other fashion, I do it. I don't have time for BS and lazy "but it's not my problem" type of people, and you're quickly moving into that column
I told you in other comments that other countries fixed their water network problems. Bad water is a governance problem it doesn't help you now but if you apply a band-aid solutions or argue for it. Nothing will ever change it's that easy.
No, you haven't. The most I've seen from you is a list of countries you list how they treat the water. You have yet to discuss how that treated water is delivered to the customers. One would assume a set of pipes of some sort. How does anything you've listed prevent the plumbing from contaminating the treated water?
We have both asked for examples of how countries guarantee safe delivery without any chemical treatment (chlorine, ozone, etc). You have provided nothing.
You are both simply ignorant. How hard would it have been to Google it yourself? You had all the context you needed. Now I will get comments that it's not a good enough source blurb. There are countries that have fixed the exact problem you are pondering about. At first we talked about chlorine now about pipes... keep kicking the ball. It's still a governance problem.
"Additionally, to protect vulnerable population groups, especially pregnant persons, babies and young children, the last remnants of lead pipes that were installed more than 50 years ago are to be removed from house connection pipes or domestic distribution systems by 2026 unless already done"
So in the mean time, because you refuse to have an in home filtration system, enjoy the free lead additives until your government gets around to your pipes. Or, use an in-home system and enjoy unleaded water now. If you can't understand that, then you are just being willfully ignorant yourself
It's under 1% you little cherry picker. The people that are living with these pipes are also getting notified and a filter in their homes from their municipality. You could have found that in the same report/website. Get over it and admit that other countries have figured out how to protect their citizens without putting the burden on the individual. Can't wait for the next aKsChuAlLy.
