Trump: "we have 'crystal clean water' in this country." Let's talk about that for a second.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Kenwardjr Retweeted:

Many things @realDonaldTrump said at the WV rally yesterday were completely false, but the thing that is most offensive is that he went into Appalachia and claimed we have “crystal clean water" in this country. Let's talk about that for a second.

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[2naSalit]

1. Obviously he doesn't approve of

our having clean water! Fuckwad.

[Botany]

2. Trump made it easier for coal companies to dump their acid mine drainage into the streams and rivers

[cyclonefence]

3. His fucking handlers are so goddam ignorant

that they're unaware of the *huge* contamination problem in Charleston WV's Kanawha and Elk Rivers in 2014:

From Wikipedia:

The Elk River chemical spill occurred on January 9, 2014 when crude 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) was released from a Freedom Industries facility into the Elk River, a tributary of the Kanawha River, in Charleston in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

The chemical spill occurred upstream from the principal West Virginia American Water intake and treatment and distribution center. Following the spill, up to 300,000 residents within nine counties in the Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area were without access to potable water. The areas affected were portions of Boone, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam, and Roane counties and the Culloden area of Cabell County.

Crude MCHM is a chemical foam used to wash coal and remove impurities that contribute to pollution during combustion. The "do-not-use" advisory for drinking water from West Virginia American Water's system began to be gradually lifted by West Virginia state officials on January 13 based upon "priority zones."

On Tuesday, January 14, the company revealed that the tank, which leaked about 7,500 gallons into the ground by the Elk River, had also contained a mixture of glycol ethers known as PPH, with a similar function as MCHM.

The chemical spill was the third chemical accident to occur in the Kanawha River Valley within the last five years. On June 12, 2014 another spill of containment water occurred at the same site.[1]

Back to me:

Furthermore, Charleston sits in a valley that it shares with many chemical plants, including but not limited to Monsanto, DuPont, WestVaCo and Union Carbide. Chemical contamination of Charleston's rivers has been a problem at least since I lived there, in the 1950s.

He was really talking to the wrong crowd on this one. Of course, if any portion of his audience was bused in from elsewhere, it doesn't matter that he knows nothing about the history of the rivers there.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. John Prine's "Paradise"

OK, so it applies technically to KY, but it's still the same region and the same problem(s).

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[CatMor]

5. Let's have him travel the country drinking out of the ...

streams and rivers with the "crystal clean water" he describes.

[shraby]

6. That's why he drinks bottled water. Yup Yup.

[Bayard]

7. Well, we can't have that!

Crystal clean water? How many ways can I screw that up?