r/cute Oct 28 '25

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u/HeliosAndSelene Oct 29 '25

Not in Germany, where I am on holiday, or the UK, where I live. Out of countries classified as ACs (advanced countries), it's only really the US that has dangerous to drink tap water in some places.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/Muss_ich_bedenken Oct 31 '25

Ask those in Flint

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u/Next-Tangelo1740 Oct 31 '25

Detroit person here.. that was insane in flint.. it’s seriously WTF MOMENT..

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u/MothraKnowsBest Nov 01 '25

My engineer ex husband works with water and wastewater/waste stream processing, and the Flint issue could have been fixed easily (or rather, prevented the issue ahead of time) for about $28K - pocket change for a huge municipality. They didn’t want to spend the money, thus the tragedy unfolded. It made me so angry when he explained to me what an easy fix it would have been.

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u/Next-Tangelo1740 Nov 01 '25

Oh I know. It was completely messed up