EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards

Scientific concensus that this is harmful, small bickering on how to set standards, but due to a bureacratic triviality nothing will be regulated at all in any capacity for several years, which happens to align perfectly with the incentives of industry that were struggling to comply with these standards.

Awesome. I am sure the people in charge are smart and this is the best path forward for all of us. After all, that is the promise of free and fair elections.

It’s a shame. I have a RO filter because I don’t trust the government to maintain water quality. I know plenty of people with the double RO filter for their well water. Its really a travesty what water quality has become.

It is one of hundreds of things which will be rolled back when a different party administration comes to power.

I’ve lived in developing countries where corruption is rampant and things take a long time to improve.

Tap water was not drinkable there, and it sucked to have to rely on water jugs or water filters of unknown quality.

We are not there in the US but the enshittification is accelerating.

I'm sure that RFK Jr. will soon be touting the wonders of raw water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_water).

This won't end well lol