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back to listing indexA Deep Dive Into The “Raw Water” Craze | The Daily Show - YouTube
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Clipped on: 2024-10-17
He saw Goop and said to himself "I can do better than that".
"They put synthetics like fluoride in the water." Uhm, does he not realize that fluoride is naturally occurring and is in a lot of natural water sources? From my reading, that is how they came up with the idea. Areas that had natural levels of fluoride had much lower rates of cavities.
My husband is a water quality chemist. He’s taught/shown me tap water is way more regulated than bottled water.
“You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity”.
I died at "Oregon Trail diseases''... Gotta love Desi
I was visiting a remote island in the Philippines, we had to hire a guide to get us up the mountain to a beautiful waterfall with a pond. When we got there... they said no swimming allowed. Turns out someone recently put in a pig farm upstream and the water was contaminated. If this con man thinks he is getting clean water near Los Angeles - he is nuts! (or he is counting on his customers being nuts)
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I live in a large city in Bolivia with great clean water, but a large part of the population doesn't have the same luck, something like this scam is a spit in the face of those folks that have children with parasites for the lack of clean water.
Love, love, love Desi's "investigative" stories!
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I love how the internet is supposed to be this free access to a wealth of factual information and and people have just turned it into a mess of believing nut jobs.
If you read about Live Water, it turns out they were getting water from the tap too. They tried to justify their prices by saying it was to cover delivery, chilling it, etc. The CEO basically just posed for cameras when drinking his "raw" water.
Nestle be like "Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN"
Can we appreaciate the brilliant editing and flow of these interviews
Not to mention that raw water like this is can also be filled with sewage run off, fertilizer run off and more.
And this is why we need to fix the science education in America ️
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Award goes to Desi for going in and risking her health for journalism.
There are three graves in my town with names of children that died from raw water in the 1700's.
