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The recent headlines surrounding the Mississippi water crisis have been both sad and pretty anxiety-inducing. After all, clean water is essential for survival. Frankly, it feels like the world could end at any day now, and I’ll be honest, it freaks me out to see the stark and increasingly damaging impact of climate change in real-time. I just connected the dots that we’re living in the year The Jetsons took place but inching closer and closer to living in a full-on Mad Max world.
With so many severe droughts across the world right now, cities going days without clean drinking water due to water shortages, and the new intel that apparently all rainwater on Earth is no longer safe to drink due to PFAS chemicals (a.k.a. Teflon), it’s only natural to feel panicked about the future—and the present, for that matter.