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.
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...Indeed, where do fish, turtles, etc go pee ?
what about the birds poop that gets in the water or insects?
Make him pay it anyway or die trying. If enough idiots get bills that destroy them for life, sooner or later idiocy will stop.
Why should taxpayers lose one thin dime?
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