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Body in Pipe an Unsavory Addition to Water
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| 05/20/03
Posted on 05/20/2003 10:49:02 PM PDT by socal_parrot
MANILA (Reuters) - Millions of people in Manila have been drinking super-chlorinated water this week as the body of a teenager remained stubbornly stuck in a major supply pipe.
Manila Water Co dumped large doses of the disinfectant into a reservoir serving the eastern part of the Philippine capital after the young man fell into an aqueduct on Saturday while picking fruit.
The company has insisted the water supply is safe as it tries to dislodge the body. Health officials agreed that the chances of contamination were slight but urged Manila Water to work faster.
"We will have to fish out the body first," Dr Concepcion Quizon, chief executive assistant to Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit, told reporters on Tuesday. "The public will not feel good or right using the water."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bodydisposal; eauhowgross; eeeewww; manila; philippines
OK...eeewww!!!
To: socal_parrot
Add all the chlorine you want to it. I am still not drinking it.
To: HairOfTheDog
Wimp!
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posted on
05/20/2003 10:51:18 PM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Eat at Joe's)
To: socal_parrot
Give me a stiff drink.
To: socal_parrot
W.C. Fields was right.
NEVER drink water.
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posted on
05/20/2003 10:52:25 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: socal_parrot
Yeah - I sound like a weenie city slicker eh?
To: socal_parrot
If you think that is bad in a few years Singapore is going to start recovering drinking water from sewage.
You might think there is nothing wrong with that, after all everyone is downstream from someone else, but there is no stream, there is no diffusion of the sewage. From the toilet, through the filter and back to your tap
To: martin_fierro
Thoreau said,
Water is "the only drink for a wise man".
But, in this case...
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posted on
05/20/2003 10:59:07 PM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Eat at Joe's)
To: ContentiousObjector
Singapore is going to start recovering drinking water from sewageCalifornia is considering this option down the road. But that's OK, they've been forcing crap down our throats for years.
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posted on
05/20/2003 11:01:34 PM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Eat at Joe's)
To: socal_parrot
man i really didn't need to read this. yuck.
10
posted on
05/20/2003 11:07:14 PM PDT
by
PatrioticAmerican
(If the 2nd is for hunting, is the 1st only for writing about hunting?)
To: PatrioticAmerican
Come on, if you go to the Phillipines, don't bathe and drink only bottled beer and shots.
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posted on
05/20/2003 11:13:29 PM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.- Mencken)
To: Fred Mertz
"Give me a stiff drink.ROFL! That's too good.
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posted on
05/20/2003 11:25:05 PM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
(It'll all come out in the wash.)
To: socal_parrot
This is all I ever remember drinking in PI
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