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Jim Davidson's avatar

"Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly

But they don't last long if they try!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI

The worst polluters are government agencies and government contractors. The most horrifyingly polluted place in the world is Hanford, Washington, and it wasn't free markets that made it that way. It was stolen by the government (eminent domain is theft) in 1943 and polluted egregiously and deliberately because nobody in the government has ever cared about their neighbours.

There is in fact plenty of water, and it falls where it is needed. Yes, it is certainly true that non-metal desalination systems are effective and low cost today, but most of them involve energy. And there is also plenty of oil in the world, but that is also made scarce through a very large number of government interventions going back to the late 19th Century.

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John Wright's avatar

Pure water is extremely important. The problem is humans. There are too many of us and we want too many products that create pollution. In my opinion, *everyone* should have a water purifier in their home. Personally I like the "gravity fed" systems (I'm also a fan of the alkaline ionizer purifiers). Gravity fed is good, it's pretty much foolproof. It just requires a little bit of effort to pour water into the top each day!

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