undefined | Better HN

0 pointswewake5y ago0 comments

What's worse than radioactive isotopes that can't possibly be filtered out in conventional water treatment plants?

Pollution is an issue in majority of rivers in the world, especially in developing countries but doesn't justify or discount radioactive waste in there.

0 comments

baybal25y ago

Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Heavy metals take months, to years to debilitate, or kill.

wewakeOP5y ago

> Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Your point being? What do you think water treatment plants are for?

baybal25y ago

My point is, even with plutonium in water, India would have much bigger, and harder to fix problems that that.

Finding plutonium would be nowhere near as hard as thousands of sources of untreated sewage.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 comments

baybal25y ago

Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Heavy metals take months, to years to debilitate, or kill.

wewakeOP5y ago

> Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Your point being? What do you think water treatment plants are for?

baybal25y ago

My point is, even with plutonium in water, India would have much bigger, and harder to fix problems that that.

Finding plutonium would be nowhere near as hard as thousands of sources of untreated sewage.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse