[Diddle E. Squat]

There's a simple thing one can do to reduce any worries about this for themselves. Just keep a pitcher of drinking water in the fridge, and keep a second pitcher of water in the kitchen. Refill the fridge pitcher from the second. In the time it takes to drink down those two pitchers, you will have already heard on the news if your water supply was poisoned.

So for the cost of a couple of plastic pitchers from the dollar store, you won't have to worry about the risk of ingestion. Yeah, there's a slight risk from brushing your teeth, but the amount is so minute and the odds so heavily stacked against this happening that it isn't worth worrying about.

[Diddle E. Squat]

BTW, back on the morning of 9/11 I did buy about a dozen gallons of bottle water from the grocery store, just as a precaution. At $.59 a gallon, they came in plastic bottles, but more than a third have sprung a leak, although they were stored in an interior closet, where the temp never has ranged beyond 60-80 degrees. Is that normal(cheap materials) after a certain amount of time? Wondering if I should buy higher priced replacements if the containers will last longer. Sheesh, I thought water was water.

[Allrightnow]

"Just keep a pitcher of drinking water in the fridge"

Better yet, stock up on beer (domestic only). Not only do breweries have high levels of quality control but you will be contributing to capitalistic society while doing something proscribed by the Koran. Kills three birds with one stone.