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If one does the calcs, it is very difficult to conduct a massive poisoning by water supplies unless it is done directly at local treatment facilities. Poisoning a reservoir takes dump trucks worth of contaminant and then dispersing it.

Which is why that wouldn't be there target. These people are not stupid, they are evil sob's but they aren't stupid.

Check this out for example.

If one does the calcs, it is very difficult to conduct a massive poisoning by water supplies unless it is done directly at local treatment facilities.

That's not completely true. Water distribution systems are not one-way. If you really do the math, it would seem to me that terrorists could inject poison into a water main from any house/commercial building they decide to set up in.

They would need a pump that could pump X GPM of poison at greater pressure than is presented at their tap, say like 60 psi, or maybe a coupla horsepower. depending on where in the system they pick, they could get huge amounts of crud into the system without any accurate way of detecting the source. Pump stations require huge pumps to fill massive GPM at the same pressure...whereas you need less pressure to get a small flow backdriven through a 2" feed from the street.

You don't need to "back a truck up" to a resevoir out in the open!!!

So we should pull the records of Ozarka and Culligan and see if any of their customers drink a suspicious amount of bottled water in a small building.....

I thought allot of us here in Oregon had wells?

Poisoning a reservoir takes dump trucks worth of contaminant and then dispersing it.

They don't have to be totally successful and kill thousands of people to cause mass hysteria. For example, who would want to drink water from the tap after finding out that even a single truckload of some particularly nasty carcinogen had been dumped into the municipal water supply? Who would even want to wash in it?

I still can't believe our leadership is even willing to run that risk. It's as if they do not fully understand their duty. Ragheads should be interned yesterday.

Poisoning a reservoir takes dump trucks worth of contaminant and then dispersing it.

I recall a thought experiment that illustrates how small a molecule is, it ran something like:

If you take a single drop of water and drop it in the oceans of the world, stir THOROUGHLY, and then extract a drop of water-- it would contain (about) 100 molecules from the original drop.

In other words, the ratio of molecules to a drop of water is 100 times denser than the ratio of drops to the worlds oceans.

Take that 'fact' and combine it with the acknowleged 'fact' that if a microscopic piece of radioactive material gets into your body, you WILL get cancer -- may not happen for 10 or 20 years, but it will happen.

So, perhaps you need a teensy disclaimer on your assertion.