OK, whatever...
Don’t let science and facts get in the way...
Take an empty plastic water bottle, one that you bought from a store, drank and now it’s empty.
Fill it with water from your tap, screw the top back on and let it sit for 7-10 days.
Observe the results. Open it and drink it.
You’ll notice that it’s quite the same as water fresh from your tap.
This is because our tap water has chlorine in it.
For the water to go ‘bad’ because of bacterial contamination it needs:
at least 10exp3 viable bacterial colonies...
Bacteria need a food source, carbohydrates like some form of sugar and then they need other trace elements to reproduce like potassium, phosporus, calcium, iron, nitrogen and sulfur...to make proteins and so forth...
If NYC goes up in a puff of smoke, then you’ll be happy to have whatever water is left...
okay,take a case of water
leave it in the back of your pick up truck over the summer
then drink one
have toilet paper handy
do I need to fill in how I know??
> This is because our tap water has chlorine in it. For the water to go ‘bad’ because of bacterial contamination it needs:...
What you say is quite true for a bacterial contamination. Algae is a different matter altogether.
Here in the Waitakere Ranges (NZ) our water is Chlorinated, just like yours. It is also amongst the purest tap water in the world (it has won awards internationally). Nearly chemically pure.
If you bottle it and leave it in the sun, in a few months it will begin to grow algae.
Algae needs only sunlight to make its own food.
Your water in NYC is highly unlikely to be as clean as ours. So I would not dismiss out-of-hand that algae could grow in your bottled tap water in a matter of a few days, if you left it in the sunlight.
That’s the price you pay for living in the Big City.
>> Don’t let science and facts get in the way...
>> [details of controlled experiment]
>> This is because our tap water has chlorine in it.
Nothing was said about the source of the water, the quality of the water, or the specifics of the packaging. Can we say:
Don’t let the conditions get in the way...