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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13716493

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Clean is relative, there are lots of contaminants in wetland water that make it unsafe. They are incredibly important and very useful for naturally cleaning water, but please don't drink the swamp water.

[–] teft 12 points 7 months ago

please don’t drink the swamp water.

You're not the boss of me.

[–] dumpsterlid 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who put those contaminants there though?

Swamp creatures didn’t, the swamp didn’t, we did.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not not contaminants are anthropogenic. Decomposing organic matter, heavy metals from soil and rock erosion, microorganisms and microbial by-products all naturally occur in wetlands and are dangerous to us. There's nothing wrong with that, just don't drink it or get it in open wounds :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

There are some Dutch wetlands where the natural arsenic levels are high enough that by picking up a bucket of dirt and then placing it back down, you are technically committing an environmental crime.

There's so much arsenic in the ground, it's killing the beavers who chew on the trees that grow there (birches don't care, beavers do).

And it's been there since before humans even lived there. Just naturally occurring pollution.