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Indore`s clean city reputation shattered by deadly water contamination outbreak. 4 dead, 1400+ sick from contaminated drinking water. Discover the cause & city`s response. Read more! https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/indore-water-contamination-outbreak-etiuir3q?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Indore #cleancity #watercontamination #LabTest #drinkingwater

@nixCraft It's not only humans. The biggest loser in that #greed game will be #nature. We already have desertification because of #AI #dataCenters, the abuse of drinking water is horrible ... and that of electricity, too.
#DrinkingWater reserves of the world get rarer. And everything is connected to #biodiversity loss and species #extinction plus #climatecrisis.

Please let us not forget all the more-than-human life that we are harming (and thus also ourselves).

#genAI #AIFootprint #system

Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline

https://foodmedcenter.org/2026-center-for-food-as-medicine-longevity-airline-water-study/

#HackerNews #Quality #Water #Airline #Study #DrinkingWater #TravelHealth

This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)

If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!

This list is non-exhaustive...

#NoHumanIsillegal: #FerriesNotFrontex!
#PNCHNZS! Being a racist, fascist or otherwise shit person is a choice. People can choose to deradicalize, but not 'choose' not to be targeted by Neonazis!
#NSAfDverbotSofort - no excuses!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#HousingFirst, cuz #HumanRights are not negotiable, but precondition to even consider negotiations!
#UBI instead of #MeansTesting; Cuz survival is not optional!
#Education is a #HumanRight and should be provided to anyone without any paywalling or charges. This includes access to #Textbooks, which should be provided #DRM-free. All education material should be publicly available and it's creation and updates be paid by the public just like schools.
#ClothesHaveNoGender
#PublicTransport should be #free, #accessible and publicly funded and run.
All #infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should be publicly run and financed solely by either transit fees or public spending.
#accessibility should be mandatory without exceptions. Paywalling it should be criminalized as a hatecrime.
Every #home should have access to #DrinkingWater, Sewage Handling, #electricity and #fiber #internet. IDGAF if it's at some remote island or desert oasis!
#HealthCare is a #HumanRight, not a commodity!
#Politicans should have to obey the same #laws re: secondary income as #PublicServants and be barred from recieving any other #compensation, #bonuses or have any other income beyond the compensation for their post.
#Politicans should only be paid #MinimumWage!Wage
Everyone should have to contribute to #SocialSecurity programs and in return, everyone gets eligible. That means no exceptions for #billionaires and other rich people. If I have to afford ~ 20% of my paycheck for #healthcare then so can all the #Banksters!
#MinimumWage must be able to afford not mere survival, but actually be sufficient to afford #downpayment on a #home and not just #rent. It should also be automatically be adjusted with #inflation and not be a political bargaining chip!
Denying people access to legal #work is a crime against humanity. People should have a right to fair and non-discriminatory access to employment regardless of legal status.
#StockTrading should be regulated as #Gambling.
Advertising Gambling or using Gambling / #PayToLoose / "#PayToWin" / #P2W mechanics to minors should be as illegal as advertising cigarettes and liquor to them.
Banning or age restricting #LGBTQIA* content as "#AdultContent" should be illegal. #QueerErasure is indefensible. If you're to prudish to accept that #LoveIsLove then that's a "You" Problem!
#Cyberfascism needs to be outlawed and Corporations like #Palantir need to be disbanded, their assets stripped and their employees jailed for crimes against humanity. They are morally indefensible!
#BanBillionaires, strip them off their assets and wealth and redistribute it. #Billionaires should be sentenced to #CommunityService for life as means to (at least partially) undo harm caused.
#SuperUselessVehicles should be disincentivized and instead any #incentives and #subsidies should be given only to #PersonalLightVehicles of classes #L2e, #L5e, #L6e & #L7e.
#SexworkIsWork!
#CSAM is indefensible and authorities that shutdown Pedo Forums should be mandated to #delete [and report] all such content at the hosters and get them to delete it. This includes Kiwi Farms which got fired by Gandi [french registrar] for hosting CSAM!
It should be illegal to enforce foreign laws overseas. Yes this includes "#Embargos" from the #USA!
#Trump is a fascist POS and a bootlicker of #Putin!
#FuckICE
#MethanolFuelcell > #LithiumCobaltBattery
#Tabs > #Spaces
#TSV > #CSV > #MicrosoftExcel
#Markdown > #RTF
#OpenDocument > #OOXML
#PDF > #MicrosoftWord
#git > #subversion
#IRC & #Mumble, #MailingList > #discord
#XMPP+#OMEMO > any proprietary messenger
#PGP/MIME acceptance should be mandatory per law for all #eMails in #business and towards public offices
Every System that has a #clock inside has to self-adjust it correctly without user intervention. I don't care if it uses a time signal like DCF77, GNSS or NTP. Computers must syncronize their hardware clock to [Unixtime](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) regardless of the used OS
#Police should only be allowed to carry and use what law-abiding citizens are to. If you don't trust your neighbour with a #gun, why would you trust a stranger who doesn't even have to evidence proper storage, training, proficiency and isn't subject to due diligence?
#QualifiedImmunity is #PoliceState horeshite and must never be allowed and retroactively canned. If you don't want #accountability or #consequences for those in power, you are a bootlicker.
Long-lasting peace in the #MiddleEast will most likely only happen if a unified #laicist nation compromising of #Israel and #Palestine gets built. It's just currently not intended to happen by both sides!
#Ukraine is the #LitmusTest for #EU & #NATO. If Ukraine doesn't win beyond the #StatusQuoAnteBellum (1994-2011) and doesn't get EU & NATO membership it'll either be destroyed by #Russia in Putin's neo-czarist ambitions and thus will legitimize & normalize the Russian #CrimeOfAggression, which will then focus on #Baltics and espechally #Finland. Already the western #cowardice of not following through on the #BudapestMemorandum puts the #NPT and the trustworthyness of the USA, #UK and The West in general into question.
A #TotalEmbargo against Russia is long overdue - including a #SeaBlockade, not just against the #ShadowFleet which poses a statistically inevitable risk for the #envoirment!
#NuclearPower is not #renewable and using precious radioactive elements to boil water to spin a turbine is an insult to #physics! #Renewables should be mandatory and we can talk about #Fusion once #ITER actually evidently works and is able to sustain net positive energy output into the grid.
"#AI" is #WastefulComputing and should be considered an #EnvoirmentalCrime and #CrimeAgainstHumanity, with all the prosecution it entails!
The only people that have a 'right' to be 'proud' of their #citizenship are those that actually had to put in effort to get #naturalized. People who won the #BirthLottery are disqualified.
Also anyone who is "proud" of their citizenship by birth evidently has achieved nothing on their own worth to be proud of! Even if it's just graduating school, driving license, forklift certification or some kind of art.
We need #RightToRepair, not only but espechally for #electronics! This includes tight mandates to provide #parts, #tools, #documentation and #support under #FRAND [fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory] terms.
#Patents on #Software, espechally #GameMechanics, should be illegal. No #patent should be issued without evidence of it being a genuine, new #invention with a demonstrable prototype. If #Kickstarter wouldn't accept it, then neither should any #PatentOffice!
#Patents of lifeforms and DNA have to be outlawed.
#Copyright to something should cease the moment the copyright holder refuses to offer the copyrighted work under FRAND terms. If buying isn't ownership than #piracy isn't #theft. Also #OneTimePurchase options [for a specific version] should be mandatory by law and #subscriptions only be allowed for products and services that actually incur costs to upkeep (i.e. bandwith and storage for hosting/streaming). Designing something as "#LiveService" when it has no reason (i.e. refusing to sell physical copies) to should be deemed a fraudulent circumvention of it.
"#ClientsideAnticheat" is #malware and needs to be prosecuted as such. Any "#AntiCheat" should be Server-Sided only.
#PriceGouging must be prosecuted harder, espechally when it comes to #utilities.
Just like #FuelPrices at a #GasStation, so should #ChargingStations be mandated to publish their pricing publicly in realtime and not discriminate customers!
Everyone should have a #RightToBanking without discrimination. Any closure of accounts must be legitimized by actual criminal activity (i.e. money laundering, fraud, terrorism financing, ...) and go through due process with appeals.
Everyone should have a right to free, unseizeable #ID documents without mandating #biometrics or other privacy invasions! These should be eligible as Travel #Passport and people should have global #FreedomOfMovement only restricted by an actual, individual judge ruling that went through proper oversight and appeals. Duplicate Issues to avoid Visa Conflicts (with duplicate Serial Numbers!) should be offered and granted upon request.
#Gender does not belong into ID documents! Just like weight, hair colour, religion, occupation and address don't!

Drinking Water for Millions Is Threatened as Trump Targets National Monuments

About 83 percent of water passing through public lands has no other protection besides the monument designations.

https://murica.website/2025/12/drinking-water-for-millions-is-threatened-as-trump-targets-national-monuments/

Don’t talk – listen. Why communities affected by forever chemicals in water must be heard
#Environment #PFAS #ForeverChemicals #WaterSafety #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityVoices #Australia #DrinkingWater #Pollution #TrustInScience #The14
https://the-14.com/dont-talk-listen-why-communities-affected-by-forever-chemicals-in-water-must-be-heard/

WA’s wettest towns have had no local drinking water for 15 years

The state government has trucked water to two of Western Australia’s wettest towns day in, day out for…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #bushfireseason #drinkingwater #Northcliffe #potablewater #Quinninup #rainfall #southwestwa #wanews #Water #watercarting #WaterCorp #watermanagement
https://www.newsbeep.com/310318/

Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages

data centers accelerate the contamination of residential drinking water. It’s a combination of poor wastewater management, sandy soil, and good old physics that leads to nitrate concentrations in drinking water

#drinkingwater #wastewater #environment #cancer #miscarriage #health #datacenters #technology #tech

https://www.theverge.com/news/834151/amazon-data-centers-oregon-cancer-miscarriage

#Australia #environment #water #DrinkingWater #WaterSupply #datacenter #datacenters

Commission hosts first Water Resilience Forum

The European Commission convenes the first Water Resilience Forum today (Dec 8), a high-level gathering of policymakers, scientists,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #drinkingwater #Latvia #LV #Water #waterpolicy #waterpollution #waterprotection #watersupply #watercourse
https://www.newsbeep.com/296368/

@micahilbery “In its submission to the #Victorian pricing review for 2026 to 2031, #MelbourneWater noted that hyperscale #DataCentre operators that have put in applications for connections have “projected instantaneous or annual demands exceeding nearly all top 30 non-residential customers in #Melbourne”

Yep, and Aus is the driest inhabited continent.

#AI #arseholes / #Water / #DrinkingWater < https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply>

“In its submission to the #Victorian pricing review for 2026 to 2031, #MelbourneWater noted that hyperscale #DataCentre operators that have put in applications for connections have “projected instantaneous or annual demands exceeding nearly all top 30 non-residential customers in #Melbourne”

#AI / #Water / #DrinkingWater <https://theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply>

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply #Australia #DataCenters #EnergyHogs #EnergyVampires #WaterisLife #DrinkingWater #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #tech

Folks share ‘cheap habits’ they did out of necessity but keet because they improves their lives

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/cheap-habits-that-improve-lives

#Wikipedia - #Venezuela
#Pollution at #MaracaiboLake

"#LakeMaracaibo in the state of #Zulia is one of the most important bodies of water in the western region of Venezuela. This lake was also the site of one of the worst environmental catastrophes in Venezuela's history: the #BarrosoII blowout in 1922; an oil well that began spewing huge quantities of oil for 9 days, spilling around 900,000 barrels in the area. This oil disaster, paradoxically, became a milestone for the abundance of the oil industry in the country.

"Erick Camargo indicates that oil spills generated by the lack of maintenance of the complex network of oil infrastructure continue to be a constant and are the main cause of contamination in the lake. However, he also indicates that the use of #agrochemicals on nearby crops and the discharge of #sewage worsen the situation.

"A 2022 scientific paper reveals the presence of multiple #toxic elements in surface sediments in different parts of the lake. This constitutes a high risk for the flora and fauna of the region, as well as for the health of the human communities living in the areas where the samples were taken. Another study in 2007 revealed the presence of #ToxicMetals in part of the subway aquifers connected to the lake basin; the samples taken had values well above the limits allowed for #DrinkingWater according to national and international regulations."

#Venezuela #BigOil #BigOilAndGas #SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #WaterIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #PollutionSacrificeZones
#GlobalSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

The #Trump admin proposed Monday to significantly limit the EPA’s authority to limit #pollution in #wetlands, #rivers & other bodies of #water across the country.

The proposed rule could strip federal #protections from millions of acres of wetlands & #streams, potentially threatening sources of clean #DrinkingWater for millions of Americans.

#climate #wildlife #law #EnvironmentalLaw #CleanWaterAct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/climate/epa-curbs-protections-for-wetlands.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share