Using TeamViewer, hacker breaks into water treatment plant and tries to poison the water - yikes!

[Thrift Store Scott]

freeradical wrote:
Sodium hydroxide is not used to control the "acidity" of water. It is used to remediate the water by causing cations to precipitate out of the water in the form of metal hydroxides. I find it really surprising that Reuters can't even get a basic fact like this correct.

Try being a car person or worse yet an airplane person and then count the factual errors great and small in any news story involving either of those subjects. Apparently water treatment is no different.