Posted on 04/19/2014 12:54:24 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
How many times would that teenager have to pee in a Portland reservoir to produce a urine concentration approaching the EPA’s limit for nitrates in drinking water? About 3,333 times.
But of course urine is 95 percent water. (If you’re ever trapped in rubble after a natural disaster, go ahead and drink it.) Only about 2 percent of urine is nitrogen-rich urea. That means he’d have to urinate 166,666 times for the concentration of urea to approach that of the EPA’s limit for nitrates in drinking water.
Since most animals, including idiot teenaged show-offs, take about 21 seconds to urinate, that means he’d have to urinate constantly for 3,500,000 seconds, or about 40 days. Hopefully, he’d have friends constantly supplying him with tasty Portland microbrews.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
-W. C. Fields
It’s highly acidic. Odds are, it makes the water better, not worse. There certainly isn’t bacteria in it, unless he has a UTI and is peeing blood.
LOL, do it.
Fish f*ck in it.
Seeing the headlines and links and ads on that site I don’t think SLATE is appropriate for anyone nor do I think it is worth using as any kind of news source
This water was already treated and still sits there getting pissed in by animals as it’s sent to homes to be drank and bathed in
How`s this for yuk factor: There are cities that are using processed, filtered and treated waste water for drinking water, putting it right into the municipal water supply.
Name one.
Water cannot be directly pumped in the the city Water system without purification it has to be treated before injected into the City pipeline or water storage tank!
The whole thing is bogus! Treated waste water from a facility is 99% pure when it is released back into streams or the ground water table from the treatment process! All you have to see is PORTLAND and know why this was done!
Take it to the mods then.
Do flocks of birds not fly over the same reservoir?
Truth is, treated WW is safe to drink, just not acceptable to the public.
If you read what I said; “processed, filtered and treated waste water”, not raw untreated waste water. But do they remove the urea and other waste products, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, household chemicals...
And to be point on, this is being proposed in cities around the country.
What about the critters, fish, birds??? Oregon is a unique state (that’s not necessarily a good thing).
All I said was no water can sit in a reservoir and not be treated before ingested into the public water system!
The Water Authority of any city has to meet National, State, and Local standards!
There is actually a five step process to treating water for many cities before it comes out your faucet to drink. I can’t believe the water in the reservoir goes directly to people’s homes.
nope, they have already cleaned the water and store it in OPEN pond type facilities....pathetic...
Well of course. I don`t know how they plan to do it but they`re floating the ideas now.
Oh, what a ridiculous statement.
People have peed all over -- everywhere -- since time began. Yes, it's coarse and not something to encourage.
But you suggest that this kid should pay for the idiocy of bureaucrats who have gone almost insane over something most of us would laugh about.
Sit down and think about it for a minute. Really.
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