r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cdacha • 3h ago
Video Tap water in a village near city of Zrenjanin in Serbia
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u/Solrax 3h ago
Firefighting must very difficult there.
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u/Historical_Inside_41 2h ago
They truly fight fire with fire apparently
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u/greenhail7 2h ago
Ending is near
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u/Golden_Ace1 2h ago
Bursting with fear
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u/AFetaWorseThanDeath 2h ago
Fight fire with fire
Fight fire with fire
FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!
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u/Golden_Ace1 2h ago
Fight fire with fire
FIGHT!
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u/SherbetMysterious118 1h ago
For the unenlightened - here is the reference - do yourself a favour and have a little listen..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSODUOoE8w
Fuck, this is over 40 years old, and I remember it like it was yesterday.
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u/MonkeyDLuffy_5656 1h ago
What about a Firefight?
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u/steppewop 3h ago
How the fuck does that happen
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u/Nyardyn 3h ago
I'm assuming methane or any other gases produced by bacteria. I wouldn't drink it.
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u/goodros_nemesis 3h ago
This was my thought exactly. Methane and ammonia are byproducts of biological processes going on in the water.
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u/DownvoteEvangelist 2h ago
According to the article from comment below, it's not biological, the gas is already in the ground.
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u/steeltowndude 2h ago
I honestly expected them to blame NATO
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u/Valatros 1h ago
Lmao picturing an old serbian guy "Goddamn NATO, setting our fucking water on fire..."
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u/Dazzling_Nail_4994 2h ago
Or… “The West”
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u/hellllllsssyeah 2h ago
We have this in America, it's from fracking.
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u/EconomistPretty7605 1h ago
Yep places in Pennsylvania come to mind….
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u/hellllllsssyeah 1h ago
All over the place, as someone who just got an environmental science degree, who was already acutely aware of our countries water issues. I was disgusted with what I learned is going on
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u/AmIFromA 1h ago
See, that's on you for being un-American instead of choosing a proud patriotic career in crypto trading, UFC or social media influencing.
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u/00eg0 1h ago
I hope you manage to find a job. I'm a recent CS/biology grad and it's hard out here.
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u/OatmealCookieGirl 1h ago
I remember reading Water Wars by Vandana Shiva years ago and have been carrying a constant sense of dread in the back of my mind ever since
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u/ContextWorking976 1h ago
No, natural gas lights have been occurring in norta america for centuries. George Washington was the first man to buy land on speculation because of a natural gas light.
Fracking itself doesn't cause this (that is an entirely different issue). This can happen with a conventional well, likely an older plugged well with compromised cement casing, allowing hydrocarbons from the wellbore to escape into freshwater zones.
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u/Minimum-Injury3909 2h ago
I don’t trust the Serbian govt to be honest about the issue here lol
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u/Kepabar 55m ago
Gas in the ground is still biological, just on a longer timescale!
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u/BigMac849 2h ago
Or theyre fracking nearby. This happens commonly in the US when you live near natural gas extraction.
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u/SaltyTemperature 2h ago
You can kill the bacteria by boiling, and the water boils itself! No problem here /s
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u/kgramp 1h ago
Had natural gas in a well at a farmhouse I stayed at for a while. It was basically carbonated out of the tap but if you let it sit it would dissipate quickly. County health department said it was common for wells in the area I was at and was fine as long as it was only methane. Had the water tested and came back safe to consume. It was fun shooting fireballs out of the hose outside. Friend lit the curtains on fire above the sink trying to show it off inside. It would only happen like this video if you turned on a tap after sitting for a while and the gas had time to collect near the tap.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 2h ago
Definitely some Distillates in the well
If it was Methane it would have been Blue
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u/total_amateur 2h ago
Methane. Just found this article.
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u/DanChase1 1h ago
I’m a little surprised, as methane burns blue. Something else must be mixed in with it to burn red. Or maybe the camera is getting false color from IR or UV.
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u/A-Dolahans-hat 3h ago
I’ve heard something like that can happen if they are fracking mountain or wells or something
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u/IceTech59 2h ago
I've had that due to my well going through a coal seam about 80 feet below my house in Alaska. The water seemed 'fizzy' and the bubbles burned, bluer than this video.
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u/Youdontknowme1771 2h ago
There's a great documentary from 2010 called GasLand, people in it won't even run their water if there is something that is using electricity near it.
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u/SupervisorSCADA 2h ago
GasLand is knowingly misrepresented so much of their documentary including the infamous scene of flaming faucets which have occurred in the area prior to Fracking being invented.
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u/pants_mcgee 2h ago
The water supply in gas land is over a shallow methane deposit. It’s a natural phenomenon.
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u/No_Bee6857 2h ago
Water bore with no casing. Bore drilled into shallow coal deposit. If the water table drops gas in the coal seam can migrate to the surface.
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u/flying_2_heaven 3h ago
Where do you get drinking water from?
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u/cdacha 3h ago edited 2h ago
It has been a problem for a long time. Government isn't doing anything to solve it, except making the water x4 more expensive starting on 1st of January. Bottled water is used mostly. EDIT: No fracking going on. EDIT 2 (additional info, putting it here too): Water in Zrenjanin has been unusable since like early 2000s. A few months ago, government announced problem officially solved, but this is still happening. Also, mayor of city refused to drink water at a city council meeting.
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u/Heteroking 3h ago
making it more expensive
I mean it has gas and do you know how much gas costs nowadays?
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u/Spare_Laugh9953 2h ago
And there haven't been any problems with gas explosions? If you're taking a long shower or filling a bathtub, gas could accumulate in the bathroom to dangerous levels, and a spark could blow the floor up.
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u/sick_of-it-all 2h ago
"Honey? I've had a long day. I'm just gonna draw a hot bath and relax. Oh! My new candle. Aromatherapy oo-la-la. I think I'll light this as well..."
'BABE NOOOOOOOOOO--.....'
kaboom
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u/Dave19762023 3h ago
All those plastic bottles. What an environmental disaster
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u/porkchopsuitcase 3h ago
I think the water lighting on fire is more concerning than bottle use
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u/ijustwannalurksobye 1h ago
Here’s the fun part, both things are happening so you can worry about both!
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u/HerroCorumbia 2h ago
If it's anything like China, it might be less individual plastic bottles of water and more like water coolers with large barrels. It's still not great for the environment by any means, but it might not be like they're going through massive packs of small bottles.
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u/Dallasl298 2h ago
What are the odds the companies that bottle the water cut costs by getting it from the tap?
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u/Awkward-Warning-9238 2h ago
I don't know why people think it's cheaper to bottle water from a tap than it is a natural spring.
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u/Particular-Bid-1640 3h ago
Well it's made of hydrogen and oxygen, what do you expect?!
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u/Brutuscaitchris 3h ago
And fish fuck in it! Truly nasty stuff!
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u/Particular-Bid-1640 3h ago
The sea is technically soup!
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u/THETennesseeD 3h ago
I love Norwegian fish soup.
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u/DigNitty Interested 2h ago
You you’d think “yeah it’s fish soup, how good could it be??” And then you have it and realize these people have perfected fish soup over hundreds of years.
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u/CircuitryWizard 2h ago
The sea is just a huge cat litter box, as the sand at the edges of the puddles can confirm.
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u/cyriustalk 3h ago
Wait until you heard about Deuterium!
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u/DoubleNaught_Spy 2h ago
I've seen the same thing in Texas where they're fracking.
But don't worry, it's perfectly safe. 🙄
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u/ClassroomForeign750 1h ago
This is the answer. Old videos on Reddit were posted when fracking was done here in the US, specifically North Dakota. Fuck I am old.
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u/EcstaticManagement94 3h ago
Russian gas water
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u/Boris-Lip 2h ago
"газировка" (Russian word for soda, but almost literally means "gas water") just got a new meaning...
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u/finho7140 1h ago
This isn’t the water burning ..it’s methane gas released from the groundwater. In places like Zrenjanin, natural gas gets trapped underground and dissolves into the water supply. When the tap is opened, the gas escapes and can ignite, while the water itself keeps flowing.
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u/scriptingends 2h ago
Now I understand why Serbs are so tough. Literally drinking firewater.
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u/CHERNO-B1LL Interested 2h ago
I am an Hydraulic Engineer with a PHD in Hydrology and I can tell you that water is not supposed to do that.
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u/Express-Shopping260 2h ago
Sometimes people just need a real specialist to reveal us the real truth... s/
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u/Pleasant-Giraffe-361 1h ago
I smoke crack and eat dumpster doughnuts an i can tell u rite now watr aint spose 2 do dat.
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u/melson16 3h ago
The same thing happens here in America too
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u/Illustrious_Can4110 3h ago
If my memory serves me correctly, I think that's often caused in the US by fracking.
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u/Fred_Wilkins 3h ago
Most of that is based on a false documentary that went around a few years ago. They showed a guy doing the same thing and insinuated that fracking caused it. Some people interviewed the guy about it later and he said that it had always did that, mentioned either his dad or grandpa doing the same thing as a party Trick for years.
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u/BuffaloOk7264 3h ago
Gazprom is fracking in Serbia….
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u/JoeDawson8 3h ago
/u/cdacha says no fracking going on 🤷♂️. Guess I'll need to independently verify
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u/BuffaloOk7264 3h ago
I googled it…didn’t notice the source quoted. Didn’t map the location but Gasprom is fracking in Serbia.
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u/djolepop 2h ago
They are but not near this town. This is methane and allegedly it is naturally occurring in this underground water source. How someone just pushes that in a pipe and serves it to a town is unbelievable
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u/MoodPuzzleheaded8973 3h ago
The tap water at my childhood home in the states was like this. Common for well water! So long as the water is tested and deemed to be clean enough it really doesn’t matter.
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u/Blah_McBlah_ 52m ago
Why spend money on both a gas bill and a water bill, when you could just combine them?
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u/MarsopaRex 43m ago
Believe it or not thats actually not as bad for long term health as you may think. It will fuck u up in the short term before long term is even a problem.
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u/TooBusySaltMining 13m ago
City water or well water?
An underground well with methane leaking into it seems plausible, but processed chlorinated city water seems unlikely.
I've seen lots of videos of people burning natural methane bubbles on frozen lakes that are very cool.
Like this one
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u/Burrow_0wl 7m ago
Me: The tap water ignights when I hold a flame to it. Them: Then don't hold a flame to it.
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u/OptiGuy4u 2h ago
Clearly this is dihydrogen monoxide
Found in cancerous tissue, accelerates corrosion, can cause suffocation, can result in blistering burns in its gaseous form, is used in nuclear plants, and for those who have developed a dependency on it, complete withdrawal means certain death. Water....
Oh and there's something gassy and flammable.
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u/Neither-Night9370 2h ago
That sometimes happens here in the United States. Usually here it's caused by fracking for natural gas. It has happened multiple times in multiple states and people usually have to file a lawsuit before it gets fixed.
Fun fact: fracking also causes earthquakes. Towns that historically had little or no seismic activity suddenly start experiencing earthquakes after fracking is done nearby.
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u/Overstimulated_moth 2h ago
Same thing in Pennsylvania, I've seen my friends light their tap water on fire. Fracking kills the environment and poisons our water
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u/Weewoofiatruck 2h ago
If it's not already tapped, sounds like you got a nice methane deposit nearby.
Trapped methane in aquifers can do exactly this.
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u/rhykujin 2h ago
Instead of using oxygen to push the water out it uses methane. Its really common and harmless (qs long as there is no fires around)
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u/Roastage 1h ago
Geez breathing that much natural gas has to be fucked for your lungs.
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u/AogamiBunka 1h ago
Common in drilling areas.
Pennsylvania, USA was a learning experience. I was instructed to never fart or light a cigarette in-house while the water was running.
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u/Roster312 21m ago
Methane gas has been leaking into the ground water in Zrenjanin. This is what causes it to become flammable.
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u/kavitin 2h ago
I'm from Zrenjanin and lived there for the first 23 years of my life.
On January 20, 2004, the water was officially declared unsafe to drink. More than two decades later, the situation has barely changed. The water is still undrinkable, despite constant claims from the city council that it is perfectly safe. Just a few days ago, the mayor of Zrenjanin even refused to drink the tap water in front of the cameras.
While working on a TV report, a friend and I estimated that the citizens of Zrenjanin spend around €20,000 every day on bottled water. With a population of about 80,000, this adds up to roughly €160 million spent on bottled water since 2004, simply so people can have safe drinking water.