This weekend, 8,000 gallons of latex were accidentally dumped in the Delaware River – and tap water across the country is laced with disturbing chemicals
” at a Trinseo chemical facility had dumped more than 8,000 gallons of “latex emulsion product” into the Delaware river. You can’t just boil or filter these chemicals out of your water.
A human prune, I live in a permanently dehydrated state, but my wife chugs water like her life depends on it. “That’s going to last you half an hour,” I said. “I hope this crisis only lasts half an hour.”, about 1.5 million people, got an emergency phone alert. It told us that, starting an hour later, at 2pm, we should use bottled water for drinking and cooking, out of an “abundance of caution”.
After every single bottle of water in Philadelphia had been bought and panic had escalated, the city put out an update. The gist of it was: “Whoops! Looks like you didn’t need to buy all that bottled water after all, because the tap water is fine until 11.59pm on Monday.” What might happen then? Good question. Presumably, tap-drinkers would turn into toxin-laced pumpkins.
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