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originally posted by: DeathSlayer
If anyone in the world drinks public water from the faucet should by now know it is no longer safe. Often there is feces in public water. The days of drinking water from the faucet are gone....
Drink and cook with bottled water.
a reply to: gortex
originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: DeathSlayer
That depends.
In Portugal they publish the results of the frequent tests done to public water, and, personally, I prefer tap water to bottled water. My doctor told to drink tap water and not bottled water.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
The ONLY way to make sewerage clean is to let NATURE clean it up and even that does not get rid of those nasty pharmaceutical's, even distilling it can leave some contamination and yet that is the only way to make damn near pure water from anything, they are not going to distil it however just filter it.
originally posted by: DeathSlayer
Your doctor is an asshole.
originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: JohnnyAnonymous
Don't the astronauts aboard the ISS drink recycled water?
While the Americans are the only ones who filter their urine, both sets of astronauts gather condensate from the air. They have separate water systems and have never agreed on how to filter their water, according to Bloomberg.
Since the launch of the Soviet Mir space station in 1986, the Russians have used silver in its ionic form. Nasa has made use of iodine since 1981, when the space shuttle program began. The Americans plan to start using silver since it doesn’t have to be filtered out before consumption, but Carter said he likes that the Americans and Russians employ different methods.
originally posted by: anonentity
How do you get the estrogen out of the water, all those pills the girls are taking for birth control get flushed, you might get the bugs out, that's easy just boil it.
But since a female in her lifetime just produces a teaspoon full it must be pretty potent in small quantities. I am sure this is where all the feminization is coming from.
Estrogen-linked cancers are big, in fact, most of anti-cancer drugs are estrogen blockers.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: gortex
Think i read somewhere that some water companies lose 40% of the water supply before it even reaches your tap down to the state and disrepair of their pipe systems and the like.
Well that is the result of selling off the water board's assets, no proper maintenance, they only maintain to keep up profit and nothing more, closed and destroyed damn's, destroyed and unpoliced drainage ditches also harmed by later EU field size regulations, closed pumping stations.
So I am not surprised there are leak's and damage to the system but in the past not only could the system absorb leak's though it was also far better maintained but there was surplus water storage in the form of extra reservoirs and that was actually by design not accidental they were needed in case of draught's as the system was built with long term planning of a national infrastructure in mind.