The township is under a water boil advisory. They decided the way to inform people was on the website, through phone if you have a phone on your water account, through a system no one knew existed, or Facebook.
They’re offering a case of water per household for free though!
That announcement was only through Facebook. Great. All gone.
This is why I think something like mastodon works really well for government, public works or any service that wants Twitter/Facebook like notifications without all the bullshit like having to deal with all negatives of having those accounts.
More options in general would be nice. Sign up for email or something even!
Four options isn’t enough? I get you didn’t get it, but do you want them to knock on your door?
I subscribe to a service called Nixle, and the water company will email and phone is anytime there is an issue. I’m not sure what else they’re supposed to be doing. If you’re hard to find you’re hard to find. Definitely sucks to find out there’s a boil water advisory after you’ve been chugging water all morning though.
You shouldn’t need an app or have to subscribe to a third party service to know if your water is safe to drink.