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Flipboard Science Desk<p>As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this brine isn’t just coming from the ocean: New research shows freshwater ecosystems are facing widespread dual threats of salt contamination from the sea and land, made worse by climate change. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@ArsTechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ArsTechnica</span></a></span> reports:<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/salty-threats-for-drinking-water-rising-seas-and-land-based-pollution/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/salty-threats-for-drinking-water-rising-seas-and-land-based-pollution/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FreshWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreshWater</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WaterContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterContamination</span></a></p>
Leather Cub Andrew Aû<p>Supreme Court Takes a BIG SH*T on You...Literally!</p><p><a href="https://4bear.com/tags/StatusCoupNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatusCoupNews</span></a> reporting with <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/FoodAndWaterWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodAndWaterWatch</span></a> discussing the <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> decision to allow <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/RawSewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RawSewage</span></a> in our <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://4bear.com/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://4bear.com/tags/WaterContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterContamination</span></a><br><a href="https://4bear.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=FJ7PfchdcJA&amp;si=VfuPEgNtQtZgi0Ia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=FJ7PfchdcJ</span><span class="invisible">A&amp;si=VfuPEgNtQtZgi0Ia</span></a></p>
Earthworm<p>Dear Dutch people,</p><p>Maybe you live in an area where water from the Rhine river is used for drinking water production?</p><p>It might be of your interest that a factory of the chemical company Solvay discharges a highly toxic PFAS into the Neckar river, which ends up later in the Rhine. ☠️ </p><p>And the German administration managed the situation ... just increasing the legal limits from 3 to 60 ppb (microgram/L) and gave the permission to continue discharging 24 L of this PFAS particularly toxic per day ... until 2044! 🤯 </p><p>Maybe this was already in the news in the Netherlands and it&#39;s just another of these things we are seemingly helpless until we burn down something ... :acab: </p><p>Anyway, here&#39;s the shocking article, by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://opensocial.at/profile/kontextwz" class="u-url mention">@<span>kontextwz</span></a></span>, a very respectable magazine from southwest Germany.</p><p><a href="https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-1ebc356f-31d0029dab5bd0f0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opensocial.at/display/59c238fc</span><span class="invisible">-1ebc356f-31d0029dab5bd0f0</span></a> (article in German, sorry)<br /> <br />(thx to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bewegung.social/@berlinerwassertisch" class="u-url mention">@<span>berlinerwassertisch</span></a></span> &amp; <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rheinneckar.social/@susannelilith" class="u-url mention">@<span>susannelilith</span></a></span> who both pushed this into my timeline. I was following the inactive account of KontextWochenZeitung... 😅 )</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForeverChemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ForeverChemical</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForeverPoison" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ForeverPoison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PFAS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teflon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Teflon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterContamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChemicalIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChemicalIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Netherlands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dutch</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nederland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nederland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rhein" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rhein</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rhine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rhine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solvay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Solvay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Neckar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Neckar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadenW%C3%BCrttemberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BadenWürttemberg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadWimpfen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BadWimpfen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KontextWochenZeitung" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KontextWochenZeitung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cancer</span></a></p>
IndiaNewsWatch<p>Five deaths put Karnataka Dalit village on edge, residents demand probe</p><p>Since the start of August, over 200 residents, including 44 children, have been hospitalised in Kavadigarahatti. They had all consumed the water from the village’s sole overhead water tank on July 31.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/karnataka" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>karnataka</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chitradurga" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chitradurga</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kavadigarahatti" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kavadigarahatti</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dalits" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dalits</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/caste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>caste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterContamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CasteViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CasteViolence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/casteism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>casteism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/india" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>india</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/five-deaths-put-karnataka-dalit-village-edge-residents-demand-probe-181155" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewsminute.com/article/five</span><span class="invisible">-deaths-put-karnataka-dalit-village-edge-residents-demand-probe-181155</span></a></p>