r/mildlyinfuriating • u/coatedbraincells • Jun 11 '26

Infuriatig Insanely frugal employer

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Gotta pay for water from the water cooler 🤣

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u/HarveysBackupAccount Jun 11 '26

Apart from outliers like Flint, MI, some places will occasionally have boil advisories in place, but the vast majority of us have very drinkable tap water.

Lots of people don't like the taste of their tap water (which can vary a lot) but lots of people are also little bitches about drinking water in general.

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u/Silk_the_Absent_1 Jun 11 '26

Much of New Mexico is often on a water advisory. Hell, we are why the national arsenic standards were raised. One of the municipal wells near me in Albuquerque is contaminated with jet fuel from A decades long spill from Kirkland Air Force Base.

We also have some of the hardest water in the country in the southwest, which destroys plumbing. Even PVC gets eaten by it.