My relationship with municipal water is complicated. I am wowed by cities’ ability to treat water; sanitation plants are nothing short of amazing, really. But I also don’t really dig a bunch of chlorine and fluoride. I’m also appreciative of the inability of municipalities to keep their water treatment plants able to maintain real standards with crumbling infrastructure and decades of underfunding, let alone address the many pollutants of modernity, from nanoplastics to pharmaceuticals.
Today, my loft-sized Berkeley arrived, and I’m over the moon about it.