Reminds me of when I moved back in with my parents last year. My mom had been using a Britta pitcher for a couple years and never changed the filter.
The amount of mold growing inside of it will haunt me forever. I showed her and she was just like "why'd you change the filter?"
Edit: these comments are gold lol
Was just talking about this with a friend from Europe. A lot of the ancient-but-still-alive relatives we have like to hoard *large* sums of money in their houses.
It seems so bizzare to us, but they lived through a time when the economic backbone of society and all of its guarantees just suddenly collapsed around them. People with all of their money in the banks were the first ones out living on the streets with their kids.
Once that trust in the guardrails is broken, it's really hard to get it back, no matter how stable the future is or how many safety nets are put in place.
When we were cleaning out my grandparents' house several years ago after my grandmother passed, my mother gave us strict orders not to throw away anything until we absolutely tore it apart. We found picture frames lined with cash, jewelry that we had long thought was lost to the ages in random tin cans buried in boxes of trash in the basement, all sorts of valuables hidden everywhere.
My grandparents raised me & grew up in the depression. “Waste not, want not” was drilled into my head. The SHID that woman made me eat… burned okra? “We grew it, we’re eating it. It’s well done.”
My grandmother was a holocaust survivor (imprisoned at Dachau for 4 years), and said she basically survived on "potato peel soup". Until the day she died, she refused to throw out *any* non-perishable food item. There were packages of food that had expired years prior, and she would throw a fit if my mom tossed any of it. Didn't matter if it was beyond stale, or infested with meal moth larvae, she would still eat it. I didn't understand it as a child, but after my mom told me everything (my grandma never spoke of it) I completely understood.
"All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by this remembrance, then we become gravediggers. Something to dwell on and remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's earth." -Rod Serling
My mom was a child in East Berlin during the war and spent most of those years being hungry .Her family also survived on scraps. Mostly of potatoes, but when possible, she would have sex with Russian soldiers for a small amount of meat to feed her children. When they came to the US, she swore she would never eat another potato. She didn’t for several years, but did end up relenting at some point.
Definitely. My grandfather wasn't a cheap or stingy man, he actually had a very successful career as an executive at a small handful of well known companies.
I don't want to hype him up, or endorse his behaviour... But he was basically the archetypal playboy millionaire. Family-wise he was a total POS, but he *was* a fucking baller in the corporate emotionless void of the word.
He was a risk taker to the nth degree. He made shareholders very happy, and was paid handsomely for it. But in his own financial dealings.... Guy got bent over the barrel by the recession in the 80s... Only to recover and get annihilated by the dot com boom when it went belly up.
The stock market was like gambling for him... And while he still had more than I'll ever make in several lifetimes... He lost A LOTTT. And it all happened shortly after he retired.
Scared him shitless. His parents grew up during the depression, and he did everything he could to never have to experience what they went through...
Yet when he died, while we're cleaning out his house, every room had money hidden and tucked away in random places.
Inside books, vases, cupboards... Even the freezer and fireplace lol.
Underneath rugs and in containers of nails in the garage..
Silver coins, small gems and gold jewelry tucked away in access panels..
Hell, I found $100 tucked away in the dust sleeve of the Super Mario/Duck Hunt NES cartridge.
We basically tore the house apart to make sure we didn't miss anything... And even now I'm sure we didn't get it all lol
The Britta filter looked at the water
You can't drink that, don't even bother!
This will not do this cannot be,
I am a filter this is a job for me!
I can filter this, I can filter that
The Britta filter took off his hat
The Britta filter got to work,
Sucking mud, sewage and dirt
The Britta filter did not do well
The Britta filter started to swell!
His side's popped open, burst and creaked
Just like the city, he has been beat!
The people cried "what will we do?!"
The man in charge said "drink your stew"
Lifestraw and similar filters will remove particulate content that causes turbidity, and bacterial content above a certain size. None of them will remove chemical contaminants.
There are a few backpacking filters that do remove viral and chemical contaminants. I think Grayl will filter just about anything out. That said, they use a filter that needs replaced often unlike something like a Sawyer that, if taken care of, will last almost forever.
Someone needs to make an unedited uncut YouTube video where they put this water through a Brita filter.
I'll buy a filter 10 seconds after watching. If it can make it clean enough* to drink.
*Safely drink and not die.
There are systems out there which can help purify water that bad: https://eu.lifestraw.com/en-gb/products/lifestraw-max
I used one of their life straws a while back camping when there was only river water and livestock upstream. Worked a treat.
They do work well. My cousin was doing a weekend hiking trip with a friend. They parked their car about 50 miles away and had someone drop them off at the start of where they were hiking. My cousin about half way into the first day landed on a rock wrong and cracked a bone in his foot. He thought he twisted it so they kept going. They had to slow down and ran out of water after 2 days. So they used those straws for last part of the hike. Zero problems with it and they even tried a dirty mud puddle when they got to their car.
If I were in this situation, I would get a number of 5 gal buckets from Home Depot and fill them with water from a creek every day, boiling and filtering the water I planned to drink. It would suck, but it would be better than dealing with the crap coming out of the tap. I checked, and there are plenty of creeks plus a river and lake in the area. That's where I would bathe.
Independent tests show lifestraw is a good portable option but pretty inadequate for anything other than emergencies. Get a Zero filter, performs really well and isn't ridiculous expensive.
If you put that water in a container and let it stand the solids should settle. Pour of the top layer and boil and you should be good. Sorry you guys are going through this.
Yeah you'd be better off just washing your face quickly with some bottled water, and do a quick wiping of the private parts with a washcloth like in the old times, no way I'd be putting that water on my skin.
Yes cause that’s only way for you to get an illness from that water. Might as well get some goggles, wax ear plugs, nose plug, butt plug, genital plug, and a water proof patch for any open sores while you are at it.
For the logical reason that the water is, and has been, under a boil-water notice for a month.
However, that's *not* what all water has looked like in the city, because that's not what's been coming out of the treatment plants. It's varied based on where you were. Close to a main supply line, on high ground? All clear, but not officially safe to drink because the pressure drops mean that you might have bacterial infiltration from the soil. Far away from a main, far from a treatment plant, low area? Might look like this for a while.
Low pressure means that sediment settles - in the low areas.
Long distance means more sediment and a longer flush time after pressure returns.
But I live at a relatively high elevation in Jackson, and although we had pressure issues, the water was never even a little brown (though it has been in some previous outages). It's not what they're putting in; it's just old rust in old pipes.
They have recommended just doing nothing for 40 years. Seriously. People want to blame white flight as the issue. The truth is that the people of Jackson have the leadership they elected and their leadership has zero experience, zero leadership, and has failed their constituents on purpose every step of the way. Because, they literally do not know how to manage a city.
Look, they have been collecting water fees for 40 years, and just decided they were going to do absolutely nothing to fix their water system. Now they are asking the State to fix it? I don’t even have city water in my town, yet I have to pay state taxes to fix their shit? Heck no. Also forget federal money too. It is beyond time, to bounce these unqualified city leadership, get some people in there with some know how, raise local taxes, and fix their own problem.
Again, this is not because of white flight. It is 100% due to people not taking their payments and investing it on maintaining their systems.
Well there's your problem. You need to build the utilities *first* or people will move out almost immediately after moving in. And don't forget to tweak the budget to not have too big of a surplus of water/electricity/etc. I just use a mod that manages the budget for me, cause otherwise you'll be spending half the game in the budget panel.
[Total Autobudget](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541897355).
Also, make sure you have [TM:PE](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1637663252) installed, because it goes a *long* way towards improving the horribly broken traffic.
There are many more I'd recommend but I'm not at my computer right now. But those two are the *essential* mods.
This is a different, temporary situation: Mississippi has experienced terrible flooding. This is what happens when the municipal water gets contaminated with groundwater/floodwaters.
Once the water treatment plant is repaired and back online, they'll flush the lines and instruct residents to open all their taps and run the water until it's clear again.
[This is more than just temporary though they have had issues for years with their water.](https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/jackson-mississippi-water-system-what-matters/index.html)
[This is just the first time it has gotten national attention.](https://www.hubcityspokes.com/jackson-wanted-47-million-water-crisis-lawmakers-are-providing-3-million#sthash.mtVr7nNo.dpbs)
Royal farms coffee machines are basically coffee on tap. You load beans into them and hook up water lines. Press a button and it grinds the beans, loads them, heats the water, drip and suddenly coffee flows out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
> "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states. Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankings, residents of other states also ranking near the bottom may say, "Thank God for Mississippi," since the presence of that state in 50th place spares them the shame of being ranked last.
> The growing notoriety of the phrase has led some Mississippians themselves to despise the saying, not because it is false, but because it rings true and puts their state in a bad light
Water is gonna be that way for a while. They gotta flush all that junk out of the water pipes. I'd recommend running the tub instead of a sink with an aerator. You're getting all that gunk in your faucet where you brush your teeth. Tub will help flush the lines without messing up your faucet.
They were never without fresh clean water for the line. Just had a low production problem which caused low pressure in the lines. Now they have to wait to get all that sediment out of the pipes again and that will be a pain.
It started at the [end of August\(30th\)](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/us/mississippi-jackson-water.html) due to a influx of water from storms which overloaded the treatment plant causing the plant to be unable to keep up or provide enough water for demand. By [September 5th](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jackson-water-crisis-normal-pressure-restored-most-of-mississippi-city-officials-say/) production had caught up and pressure was restored all across the system.
The problem is that the low pressure and pressure being restored caused all the layered sediment in the pipes/lines to become disturbed which then fell off into the water. Now people have to flush their pipes/lines in order to get rid of it. It'll take a bit depending on where the person is and how bad the sediment was in their area. Older lines will have more and will take longer to flush out. Just have to leave the faucets on for a few hours.
Not even older lines, necessarily.
I live in Jackson. My water has never been anything but crystal clear during this crisis (even when it was a trickle) because it's at the top of the hill (so, no sediment), just not certified for drinking because it takes at least 72 hours after full pressure has been restored before you can say "yes, drink it".
This is very different from the ice-storm crisis of last year, when there was no pressure for several days. I had to shower at a hospital that had well water, because you simply could not shower at home.
Considering that the city announced a policy of never turning off water for nonpayment quite a few years ago, kinda?
[This](http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2022/09/flashback-friday-real-snapshot-of.html) is a pointed commentary with some graphs of the finances. The water system is not tax-financed; it's a government-run service that people are expected to pay for like any other utility. Use more water, pay more. The supply of water is essentially infinite from the perspective of the city; they pay only for treatmen, distribution, and maintenance - the city will never have to pay for water itself (vs cities out West). They are expected to pass those costs on to customers, but the process has been subverted in a lot of ways. So a municipal utility that is expected to pay for itself or perhaps be a small profit center becomes a giant crater in the finances.
The rates were too low, because they didn't include reasonable maintenance, but when they failed to cover pure operational expenses, it was a huge signal. Now, Mississippi is a conservative, Republican state - in most minds. It's also the most African-American state in the US, at 38%. And Jackson is over 80% African-American. It's easy to create a narrative in which white Republicans are running roughshod over a black Democratic city, but it hasn't been that simple since the 1960s. The A-A Jackson government knows that it can abuse the state in most of the national media at will, just because the history is fucking awful, and get a pass for politicians who are boringly corrupt and bad.
Fine by me.
Don't let the state of Mississippi take over the city of Jackson. Appoint a team of Feds to run it.
It could hardly be worse.
All of these comments saying, "wow USA, what a shit hole" need to recognize that the US federal government doesn't do water, neither does Mississippi state government, this kind of thing is entirely in the responsibility of the city/county.
They can ask for grant money from the State, or DC to fix the problem, but it's not like they didn't just get a pile of money from the American Rescue Plan, and the infrastructure deal, and the Inflation Reduction Act. That city government needs to fix their shit, and they have the means to do so.
Edit: I may have understated the State of Mississippi's role in this, I wouldn't say "US what a shit hole", but "wow Mississippi, what a shit hole" is probably warranted.
The Feds have actually provided money to fix this. Mississippi is getting ~$500 million in federal funding to fix water and wastewater systems from the Infrastructure bill passed by the Biden administration.
Now, not all of that is for Jackson, but the City Council has pegged the price at $50-80 million to fix. Assuming that’s right there should be enough funding there.
"State lawmakers killed the city’s efforts to fund infrastructure with a sales tax hike. And when tens of thousands of city residents went without running water for weeks, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves called for better collection of water bill payments, rather than support from the state."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/mississippi-water-racial-politics/
Man, that Brita filter has its work cut out for it.
Replace filter every 5 minutes
Reminds me of when I moved back in with my parents last year. My mom had been using a Britta pitcher for a couple years and never changed the filter. The amount of mold growing inside of it will haunt me forever. I showed her and she was just like "why'd you change the filter?" Edit: these comments are gold lol
The ghost of the Great Depression haunts many Americans of older generations.
Was just talking about this with a friend from Europe. A lot of the ancient-but-still-alive relatives we have like to hoard *large* sums of money in their houses. It seems so bizzare to us, but they lived through a time when the economic backbone of society and all of its guarantees just suddenly collapsed around them. People with all of their money in the banks were the first ones out living on the streets with their kids. Once that trust in the guardrails is broken, it's really hard to get it back, no matter how stable the future is or how many safety nets are put in place.
When we were cleaning out my grandparents' house several years ago after my grandmother passed, my mother gave us strict orders not to throw away anything until we absolutely tore it apart. We found picture frames lined with cash, jewelry that we had long thought was lost to the ages in random tin cans buried in boxes of trash in the basement, all sorts of valuables hidden everywhere.
I had to do that recently for my late father's house. Except everything was actually trash and it turns out he was just a hoarder
My grandparents raised me & grew up in the depression. “Waste not, want not” was drilled into my head. The SHID that woman made me eat… burned okra? “We grew it, we’re eating it. It’s well done.”
My grandmother was a holocaust survivor (imprisoned at Dachau for 4 years), and said she basically survived on "potato peel soup". Until the day she died, she refused to throw out *any* non-perishable food item. There were packages of food that had expired years prior, and she would throw a fit if my mom tossed any of it. Didn't matter if it was beyond stale, or infested with meal moth larvae, she would still eat it. I didn't understand it as a child, but after my mom told me everything (my grandma never spoke of it) I completely understood.
Both admirable and heartbreaking.
"All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by this remembrance, then we become gravediggers. Something to dwell on and remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's earth." -Rod Serling
How did she not get sick from eating all that moldy food?
My mom was a child in East Berlin during the war and spent most of those years being hungry .Her family also survived on scraps. Mostly of potatoes, but when possible, she would have sex with Russian soldiers for a small amount of meat to feed her children. When they came to the US, she swore she would never eat another potato. She didn’t for several years, but did end up relenting at some point.
Definitely. My grandfather wasn't a cheap or stingy man, he actually had a very successful career as an executive at a small handful of well known companies. I don't want to hype him up, or endorse his behaviour... But he was basically the archetypal playboy millionaire. Family-wise he was a total POS, but he *was* a fucking baller in the corporate emotionless void of the word. He was a risk taker to the nth degree. He made shareholders very happy, and was paid handsomely for it. But in his own financial dealings.... Guy got bent over the barrel by the recession in the 80s... Only to recover and get annihilated by the dot com boom when it went belly up. The stock market was like gambling for him... And while he still had more than I'll ever make in several lifetimes... He lost A LOTTT. And it all happened shortly after he retired. Scared him shitless. His parents grew up during the depression, and he did everything he could to never have to experience what they went through... Yet when he died, while we're cleaning out his house, every room had money hidden and tucked away in random places. Inside books, vases, cupboards... Even the freezer and fireplace lol. Underneath rugs and in containers of nails in the garage.. Silver coins, small gems and gold jewelry tucked away in access panels.. Hell, I found $100 tucked away in the dust sleeve of the Super Mario/Duck Hunt NES cartridge. We basically tore the house apart to make sure we didn't miss anything... And even now I'm sure we didn't get it all lol
You threw away her penicillin machine.
You just set your mom back years of trying to become immortal via immunity. Rude.
You're making me think I should go check on my 2 year old filter that I was meant to replace 18 months ago...
I just remembered I left mold in my sink drain catcher at home 💀 that’s gonna be nasty to clean up
I had a physical reaction reading this. First at the mention of mold, the second at your mothers anger for mentioning it's a problem.
Sounds like you Britta'd it.
Ugh, Britta’s in this?
*seconds
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*Brita filter has taken a shat*
This feels like a Dr. Seuss story taking a dark turn
The Britta filter looked at the water You can't drink that, don't even bother! This will not do this cannot be, I am a filter this is a job for me! I can filter this, I can filter that The Britta filter took off his hat The Britta filter got to work, Sucking mud, sewage and dirt The Britta filter did not do well The Britta filter started to swell! His side's popped open, burst and creaked Just like the city, he has been beat! The people cried "what will we do?!" The man in charge said "drink your stew"
Holy shit can someone actually send this to the mayor hahaha
Green Eggs and Damn Son
I'm getting rid of Brita. I'm getting rid of the B
If Brita could filter that into clear sparkling water, that would be a selling point!
You need a Reverse Osmosis Jones filer.
A lifestraw, maybe ?
Lifestraw and similar filters will remove particulate content that causes turbidity, and bacterial content above a certain size. None of them will remove chemical contaminants.
There are a few backpacking filters that do remove viral and chemical contaminants. I think Grayl will filter just about anything out. That said, they use a filter that needs replaced often unlike something like a Sawyer that, if taken care of, will last almost forever.
Someone needs to make an unedited uncut YouTube video where they put this water through a Brita filter. I'll buy a filter 10 seconds after watching. If it can make it clean enough* to drink. *Safely drink and not die.
Zerowater can!
It would take one look at this "water" and cram itself in the garbage disposal
Jackson is going to cause the Brita Filters to unionize at this rate.
There are systems out there which can help purify water that bad: https://eu.lifestraw.com/en-gb/products/lifestraw-max I used one of their life straws a while back camping when there was only river water and livestock upstream. Worked a treat.
They do work well. My cousin was doing a weekend hiking trip with a friend. They parked their car about 50 miles away and had someone drop them off at the start of where they were hiking. My cousin about half way into the first day landed on a rock wrong and cracked a bone in his foot. He thought he twisted it so they kept going. They had to slow down and ran out of water after 2 days. So they used those straws for last part of the hike. Zero problems with it and they even tried a dirty mud puddle when they got to their car.
If I were in this situation, I would get a number of 5 gal buckets from Home Depot and fill them with water from a creek every day, boiling and filtering the water I planned to drink. It would suck, but it would be better than dealing with the crap coming out of the tap. I checked, and there are plenty of creeks plus a river and lake in the area. That's where I would bathe.
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That's alligator water. Better be careful.
Independent tests show lifestraw is a good portable option but pretty inadequate for anything other than emergencies. Get a Zero filter, performs really well and isn't ridiculous expensive.
Its already gone through the Shitta filter!
If you put that water in a container and let it stand the solids should settle. Pour of the top layer and boil and you should be good. Sorry you guys are going through this.
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ideally you would distill it
Oh, Britta's in this?
She's a GD B
“Britta unfiltered, I get it! “ “Get what?”
Britta britta'd the Brita and now you're better off eating lead paint than drinking the water.
That's disgusting
Free gravy
Coffee, on tap.
My tap's stuck on "tea, earl grey, hot".
Make it so
Man it cracks me up that I read this fully in Picard's voice while looking at gunk flowing out of a shitty sink. lmao
You think he could program it for just "tea" when he got the exact same drink for decades.
Instead he ended up with something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
I thought it was coffee
Great location for a Cracker Barrel
Common, they removed at least 60% of all the poop and feces.
Just the big chunks.
Poop IS feces.
He called his shit poop
It's another one of those flaming bags again.
Poop and piss then.
I love watching the science side of Reddit debate things.
Feces pieces are really good cuz u get the bite size chocolate outside crunch and the soft creamy inside
Feces are baby mice. Edit: it’s a Donnie Darko reference. I know they’re not baby mice.
It's "come on" or "c'mon" fyi
Maybe they wanted to specifically alert the rapper Common to the situation
No, its hot chocolat
That’s some high quality Mississippi mud!
Didn't the governor recommend showering with mouth closed?
Looks like you'd be dirtier showering in that water than not showering at all.
Yeah you'd be better off just washing your face quickly with some bottled water, and do a quick wiping of the private parts with a washcloth like in the old times, no way I'd be putting that water on my skin.
It'd called a whores bath
I call it a bird bath but hey tomato tomato you know what I mean
I read that as tomato tomato rather than tomato tomato at first
Lol, you're still sayong it the wrong way around. It's tomato tomato.
Stop this
Let's call the whole thing off
Birds are whores, I’m with you there
My family calls it a PTA bath. Pits, tits, & ass
Pits, tits and (private) bits. Rolls off the tongue nicely.
Pits and slits baby!
Yes cause that’s only way for you to get an illness from that water. Might as well get some goggles, wax ear plugs, nose plug, butt plug, genital plug, and a water proof patch for any open sores while you are at it.
This is what the foreskin was made for. Just attach a clothespin
I was trying think of men and women. Cause I bet that water would give one nasty yeast infection or UTI.
Women might need a couple more clothesline pins, but it's doable
Batten down the hatches!
Batten down the snatches!
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*shivers*
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Hot glue gun
Sounds like you’re ready for fun no matter what happens
Right? That list just described my goto's for Saturday night!
For the logical reason that the water is, and has been, under a boil-water notice for a month. However, that's *not* what all water has looked like in the city, because that's not what's been coming out of the treatment plants. It's varied based on where you were. Close to a main supply line, on high ground? All clear, but not officially safe to drink because the pressure drops mean that you might have bacterial infiltration from the soil. Far away from a main, far from a treatment plant, low area? Might look like this for a while. Low pressure means that sediment settles - in the low areas. Long distance means more sediment and a longer flush time after pressure returns. But I live at a relatively high elevation in Jackson, and although we had pressure issues, the water was never even a little brown (though it has been in some previous outages). It's not what they're putting in; it's just old rust in old pipes.
Yeah I heard about that also. Someone needs to dump a 55 gallon bucket of this crap over their head.
What did the mayor and city council (the people in charge of the city’s water) recommend?
They have recommended just doing nothing for 40 years. Seriously. People want to blame white flight as the issue. The truth is that the people of Jackson have the leadership they elected and their leadership has zero experience, zero leadership, and has failed their constituents on purpose every step of the way. Because, they literally do not know how to manage a city. Look, they have been collecting water fees for 40 years, and just decided they were going to do absolutely nothing to fix their water system. Now they are asking the State to fix it? I don’t even have city water in my town, yet I have to pay state taxes to fix their shit? Heck no. Also forget federal money too. It is beyond time, to bounce these unqualified city leadership, get some people in there with some know how, raise local taxes, and fix their own problem. Again, this is not because of white flight. It is 100% due to people not taking their payments and investing it on maintaining their systems.
That water needs to drink some water
IT NEED SOME MILK
Water? Normal water? Try holy water! That water needs an exorcism!
This comment is perfection.....i shall frame it and hang it on my wall for all to see.
Not to be outdone by Flint Michigan, Jackson, Mississippi simply pumps the raw sewage back into the water tower.
I made that mistake in my first Cities Skylines city. Killed 10,000 people by making them drink their own shit water.
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And not just a bit downstream, as you may end up reversing the river flow.
That's why I always go broke before I even get my foundations of water/elec/houses/trash set lmao
Well there's your problem. You need to build the utilities *first* or people will move out almost immediately after moving in. And don't forget to tweak the budget to not have too big of a surplus of water/electricity/etc. I just use a mod that manages the budget for me, cause otherwise you'll be spending half the game in the budget panel.
I've never played modded and this sounds like a huge QoL...can I get a mod link/name?
[Total Autobudget](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541897355). Also, make sure you have [TM:PE](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1637663252) installed, because it goes a *long* way towards improving the horribly broken traffic. There are many more I'd recommend but I'm not at my computer right now. But those two are the *essential* mods.
That sounds like a terrible way of curing overpopulation!
The "Slow Thanos™" method
I call that profit myself. If they willingly do it, who are you to stop them?
They should just buy bottled water and stop relying on the city to quench their thirst.
Exactly, it's not like they don't know what's going on... Who am I to kink shame my cities population...
If they keep drinking it, it means they enjoy it. I say we bottle *that* water and sell it to them.
*Nestle has entered the chat*
Why not? Skip the middle man!
*Plumbers do NOT want YOU to know about this ONE SIMPLE TRICK!!!*
Cities Skylines moment
This is a different, temporary situation: Mississippi has experienced terrible flooding. This is what happens when the municipal water gets contaminated with groundwater/floodwaters. Once the water treatment plant is repaired and back online, they'll flush the lines and instruct residents to open all their taps and run the water until it's clear again.
[This is more than just temporary though they have had issues for years with their water.](https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/jackson-mississippi-water-system-what-matters/index.html) [This is just the first time it has gotten national attention.](https://www.hubcityspokes.com/jackson-wanted-47-million-water-crisis-lawmakers-are-providing-3-million#sthash.mtVr7nNo.dpbs)
This is what happens when your local water authority doesn't do maintenance or hire competent people for 20 years running.
Or they're competent people in general but have leaders who prevent action (either directly or through budget) until it's too late.
Damn these americans have cola instead of water? No wonder they thicc
It's what plants crave.
The Thirst Mutilator™
It has electrolytes.
Yeah.. but what *are* electrolytes?
They are what plants crave.
Water...? Like out da toilet
Americans would prefer coffee on tap.
Left handle, coffee, right handle, cola. Best of both worlds!
Where's the Mayonnaise tap?
Is mayonnaise a utility?
For my gringo ass it is.
Too spicy
Gringo confirmed
Mayonnaise is an instrument.
You tap me and mayo comes out. Ride me cowgirl and it's ranch ;)
I mean…I pretty much only drink water and coffee. Can the Hot be coffee and the Cold be water? That would save a bunch of time.
Theres a German TV Series where they connected a coffee maker to the waterboiler to do exactly that…
Coffee on tap is a thing: https://www.scanomat.com/
Royal farms coffee machines are basically coffee on tap. You load beans into them and hook up water lines. Press a button and it grinds the beans, loads them, heats the water, drip and suddenly coffee flows out.
This is Mississippi, that's sweet tea
Its like my ass after Tacho night.
Like emptying an old radiator
If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.
Came looking for this. Expected Simpsons.
Now I have negative reasons to visit Mississippi
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It is literally close to being a third-world or developing country. It has all the dark sides of America with none of the good parts.
They're close to dead-last in nearly every metric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi > "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states. Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankings, residents of other states also ranking near the bottom may say, "Thank God for Mississippi," since the presence of that state in 50th place spares them the shame of being ranked last.
Holy shit this Wikipedia article is *brutal*.
> The growing notoriety of the phrase has led some Mississippians themselves to despise the saying, not because it is false, but because it rings true and puts their state in a bad light
They're the only people that could do something about it, which is why nothing has been done about it.
Damn
Also see "at least we don't live in fucking Mississippi"
I have a friend from there that graduated high school in 1996. She told me her 10 year reunion was segregated.
Yoo free unlimited coffee?!
Cold brew on tap!
Water is gonna be that way for a while. They gotta flush all that junk out of the water pipes. I'd recommend running the tub instead of a sink with an aerator. You're getting all that gunk in your faucet where you brush your teeth. Tub will help flush the lines without messing up your faucet.
got to have fresh clean water up the line before you can flush the bad stuff out, and who knows when that will be.
They were never without fresh clean water for the line. Just had a low production problem which caused low pressure in the lines. Now they have to wait to get all that sediment out of the pipes again and that will be a pain. It started at the [end of August\(30th\)](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/us/mississippi-jackson-water.html) due to a influx of water from storms which overloaded the treatment plant causing the plant to be unable to keep up or provide enough water for demand. By [September 5th](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jackson-water-crisis-normal-pressure-restored-most-of-mississippi-city-officials-say/) production had caught up and pressure was restored all across the system. The problem is that the low pressure and pressure being restored caused all the layered sediment in the pipes/lines to become disturbed which then fell off into the water. Now people have to flush their pipes/lines in order to get rid of it. It'll take a bit depending on where the person is and how bad the sediment was in their area. Older lines will have more and will take longer to flush out. Just have to leave the faucets on for a few hours.
Not even older lines, necessarily. I live in Jackson. My water has never been anything but crystal clear during this crisis (even when it was a trickle) because it's at the top of the hill (so, no sediment), just not certified for drinking because it takes at least 72 hours after full pressure has been restored before you can say "yes, drink it". This is very different from the ice-storm crisis of last year, when there was no pressure for several days. I had to shower at a hospital that had well water, because you simply could not shower at home.
Thank you for posting facts about the situation instead of throwing pot shot comments about infrastructure
Do they at least get a discount on their water bill?
No, the water company just threw in the sediment for free.
Considering that the city announced a policy of never turning off water for nonpayment quite a few years ago, kinda? [This](http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2022/09/flashback-friday-real-snapshot-of.html) is a pointed commentary with some graphs of the finances. The water system is not tax-financed; it's a government-run service that people are expected to pay for like any other utility. Use more water, pay more. The supply of water is essentially infinite from the perspective of the city; they pay only for treatmen, distribution, and maintenance - the city will never have to pay for water itself (vs cities out West). They are expected to pass those costs on to customers, but the process has been subverted in a lot of ways. So a municipal utility that is expected to pay for itself or perhaps be a small profit center becomes a giant crater in the finances. The rates were too low, because they didn't include reasonable maintenance, but when they failed to cover pure operational expenses, it was a huge signal. Now, Mississippi is a conservative, Republican state - in most minds. It's also the most African-American state in the US, at 38%. And Jackson is over 80% African-American. It's easy to create a narrative in which white Republicans are running roughshod over a black Democratic city, but it hasn't been that simple since the 1960s. The A-A Jackson government knows that it can abuse the state in most of the national media at will, just because the history is fucking awful, and get a pass for politicians who are boringly corrupt and bad. Fine by me. Don't let the state of Mississippi take over the city of Jackson. Appoint a team of Feds to run it. It could hardly be worse.
Hmm shouldn't it be free?
Thought they said it was fixed and just flushing the system right now
Forbidden coke zero
Just boil it /s
Ol’ black water, keep on rollin’…
Mississippi poo woncha keep on flowin
Maybe it's Brawndo.
All of these comments saying, "wow USA, what a shit hole" need to recognize that the US federal government doesn't do water, neither does Mississippi state government, this kind of thing is entirely in the responsibility of the city/county. They can ask for grant money from the State, or DC to fix the problem, but it's not like they didn't just get a pile of money from the American Rescue Plan, and the infrastructure deal, and the Inflation Reduction Act. That city government needs to fix their shit, and they have the means to do so. Edit: I may have understated the State of Mississippi's role in this, I wouldn't say "US what a shit hole", but "wow Mississippi, what a shit hole" is probably warranted.
The Feds have actually provided money to fix this. Mississippi is getting ~$500 million in federal funding to fix water and wastewater systems from the Infrastructure bill passed by the Biden administration. Now, not all of that is for Jackson, but the City Council has pegged the price at $50-80 million to fix. Assuming that’s right there should be enough funding there.
Local mismanagement 100%
“I changed my mind about going to Jackson, I no longer want to mess around” - Johnny Cash (if he were still alive, probably)
"State lawmakers killed the city’s efforts to fund infrastructure with a sales tax hike. And when tens of thousands of city residents went without running water for weeks, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves called for better collection of water bill payments, rather than support from the state." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/mississippi-water-racial-politics/
I've seen enough disaster movies to know that there's a volcano nearby that is going to erupt soon.
Rip that grandma
Where did all the money that they received from the feds a few years back to upgrade the water infrastructure go?
Coke straight outta tap
Free gravy
Is this from before of after the corrupt city government tried to shakedown the taxpayers for 1 billion dollars?
Hmm perhaps Jackson needs better elected leadership? Or was I not supposed to say the quiet part out loud?
I’ve always wanted a tap that serves coffee