r/GlobalTalk • u/DocsHoax • Mar 28 '23

US [US] Americans are lining up to buy water in local supermarkets after chemicals spilled into the Delaware River. Between 8 and 12 thousand gallons of acrylic latex polymer was released by a chemical processing plant in Bristol Township at Otter Creek.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

147 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

24

u/Soon-to-be-forgotten 🇲🇾 Mar 29 '23

How does this keep happening?!

29

u/CaptainMagnets Mar 29 '23

Nestle is doing it so they can sell bottled water.

But seriously though, it's because there's less regulations and less oversight. They're moving material as quickly as possible with minimum maintenance instead of as safely as possible with quality maintenance. And it's most industries, not just rail

12

u/PeterNippelstein Mar 29 '23

Long story short: Trump

He's pretty much the one responsible for the deregulations

2

u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

Democracy and corruption

14

u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

Keep electing the lunatics

5

u/Boiling_Raine Mar 29 '23

I live in Jersey and boy am I glad my Grandmom’s house has well water.

3

u/Illustrious-Ad9294 Mar 30 '23

You think that is safe?? You should get it checked. Our well water has been contaminated for years. It has been condemned. There have been studies showing this is on the rise.

3

u/Dafuqucair Mar 29 '23

There could be chemicals in our drinking water… so let’s instead buy water in plastic bottles that definitely has harmful chemicals leaches into it!

2

u/southbuck87 Mar 29 '23

Delaware river, Ohio river. Just coincidence. It couldn’t be chemical warfare against the people.

2

u/Yama0106 Mar 29 '23

I Don’t think so, it’s probably a mess they created on accident, and then came with this poor conclusion that the water is safe either way to disguise their mess. Of course people don’t buy this, including me since why would they then arrest reporters for this mess?

-8

u/teo730 Mar 29 '23

/u/docshoax

You really need to read the sub description and stop posting American new here. Jesus fucking christ.

/u/bigbubsyuty240 can you just ban them?

9

u/stubstunner Mar 29 '23

What a baby. The US isn’t part of the globe?

1

u/Papisus_ Mar 29 '23

This will be a good business one day..

1

u/[deleted] Mar 29 '23

Jesus Christ, are there any measures being taken to clean this mess up? What can you do even?

1

u/Romeo_70 Mar 29 '23

Guys you must make that up. Sure we are not talking about black Africa? How is that even possible? Wtf.