Farmers say proposed drinking water requirements would drive up costs

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The state Department of Health is considering an update to how it exempts small farms from some drinking water requirements.

The department says it’s a simple fix to outdated and inaccurate language to what’s known as the “same farm exemption,” but farmers say the changes could be costly and burdensome – especially for farms with onsite housing for employees.

Under a 1995 state law, water systems with four or fewer connections, serving residences on the same farm and providing water to fewer than 25 people a day are excluded from some regulatory requirements that larger public water systems face.

The updated language would require those exempt farms to reapply every five years for the exemption. If at any point, the farms didn’t qualify, the Department of Health would have the authority to take away the exemption.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/08/15/farmers-say-proposed-drinking-water-requirements-would-drive-up-costs/

Who cares if your drinking water is polluted so long as it's cheap.

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1. Like this? Arsenic in the water when THEY let the oil companies do it. Bad report? Forget it.

The well’s former operator, Ramón González, never alerted them, residents say. Neither did the state agency supervising him. The commission said it did its part by issuing a $1,300 fine in 2013, along with a court order, which is currently pending at the state's attorney general's office, a spokesperson said. The agency said that under the Safe Water Drinking Act, individuals who operate a water system serving households have up to a year to issue a notice if the contamination doesn’t pose an immediate risk.




https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/01/midland-texas-water-violations/

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2. Yeah...

Humanity doesn't pay the bills, you know.