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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:23:27 JST feld
   move to where it's green or suffer the consequences
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     Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:34:45 JST Daniel Taylor

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     @feld yeah, that's not going to happen.

     Just going to have to treat the water

     [e]I suppose that's one of the consequences

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:34:45 JST feld

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     • Daniel Taylor
     @RandomDamage they can't, that's the point
     
     The treatment plants in the USA are not working properly because they can't handle changing conditions.
     
     When there's drought, human poop doesn't also get reduced. We keep pooping at the same rate. So the sewage is not as diluted as it is when we have normally expected amounts of rainwater.
     
     When we have too much rain, there's issues with containing our sewage from getting into the groundwater and aquifers ...
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 05:04:30 JST feld

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     • Daniel Taylor
     @RandomDamage turns out that removing nitrates is extremely hard though. If your water treatment plant doesn't use Reverse Osmosis, it's not gonna get removed. There is an ion exchange filtration technology that can also remove them but it's incredibly expensive to operate so it's not likely to ever be used at scale.
     
     And RO doesn't even remove 100%
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     Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:07:48 JST Daniel Taylor

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     @feld well, it's going to suck. There's a lot of people in the red and orange areas and they can't all move

     It's a problem that's going to have to be dealt with in various ways in place.

     Which probably means the expensive water treatment solutions in your other comment, and hoping that with practice we can find ways to bring the cost down

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:07:48 JST feld

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     • Daniel Taylor
     @RandomDamage yeah moving is super expensive and there are countless reasons why people can't relocate but if you can or you're planning to... I would definitely urge people to consider this variable
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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:09:25 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @feld lmao I have about only lived in red areas
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:10:06 JST feld

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     • Insane Eagle Sun
     @sun two orange and now green for me! wheeeeeee
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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:10:18 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @feld three red one orange
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:16:34 JST feld

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     @RedTechEngineer mmm weird cant find it. Even this article says "no data" for Alaska and Hawaii
     
     https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/estimated-nitrate-concentrations-groundwater-used-drinking
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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:16:35 JST RedTechEngineer

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     @feld wheres alaska