• Gerudo@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, they didn’t put it in the constitution probably because they thought clean water is a given. I’m sure they thought “nobody will be stupid enough to have to be told this is a human right”.

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      15 hours ago

      They didn’t put it in because the Constitution was written in 1789. Indoor plumbing didn’t even exist yet. “Clean water” was an abstract concept.

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        7 hours ago

        Water filtration existed in the 1700s. I think I read somewhere in europe had a patent for mechanical water filtration. So there was some concept of clean vs dirty water

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      16 hours ago

      Eh, not sure sure since they were drinking low % beer back then instead of water because it was safer.

      They didn’t put clean drinking water in the Constitution, because it didn’t exist on a large scale yet.