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hunter

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10. Our tap water is very hard and aggressive.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:10 PM
Aug 2024

The water gets visibly crusty when heated.

Before we got the reverse osmosis unit our coffee makers would only last two or three years, even when we descaled them regularly.

I fill the prewash cup of our dishwasher with citric acid before every load, otherwise all our glassware becomes cloudy.

In my fantasy world we'd be restoring all the riparian and wetland environments humans have destroyed.

Streams I remember flowing all year around as a kid are now completely dry most of the year and they become raging torrents during storms, draining all the places that have been "developed" with streets, parking lots, McMansions, and big box stores.

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