Remember hearing those warnings when traveling to certain countries? Don’t drink the water? Now, there are warnings all over the place about America’s drinking water. Apparently, all the news outlets have received their media packets to sound the alarm and try to put fear into the citizens of the United States.

CNN, Newsweek, and USA Today are some mainstream media outlets that tell the tale, along with several local news organizations.

But let’s go back to January when FBI Director Christopher Wray warned us all this year.

WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Hackers linked to the Chinese government are targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, preparing to cause “real-world harm” to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional committee on Wednesday.

Water treatment plants, the electric grid, oil and natural gas pipelines and transportation hubs are among the targets of state-sponsored hacking operations, he told the House of Representatives Select Committee on competition with China Wray spoke the same day U.S. officials announced that they had disrupted a sweeping Chinese cyber-spying operation. – Reuters

Before we go any further, yes, I know this is an election year, so who knows if any of this is real. I feel the need to mention that only because of COVID-19 nostalgia.