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Think Twice before drinking water!

#41
If anyone has been through a hospice situation you know that when the sad event comes, the first thing the hospice nurse does is inventory and DUMP all the meds used right down the crapper. Meds used for pain management by hospice are pretty hard-core narcotics and the quantities that end up getting flushed can be quite large.

All I could think as I watched the nurse flush 'em was, "Man, there are gonna be some trippin' fishies in the Missouri River tonight!"
 
#42
tZer said:
If anyone has been through a hospice situation you know that when the sad event comes, the first thing the hospice nurse does is inventory and DUMP all the meds used right down the crapper. Meds used for pain management by hospice are pretty hard-core narcotics and the quantities that end up getting flushed can be quite large.

All I could think as I watched the nurse flush 'em was, "Man, there are gonna be some trippin' fishies in the Missouri River tonight!"
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The FDA has already changed it's stance on this practice in light of these stories about contaminated tap water.. Originally the FDA told everone to flush old prescription drugs, now they want everyone to throw them in the trash.
 
#43
JonathanD said:
"super Viruses" have shown up in hospitals. The theory is that the sterile environments makes the viruses adapt and become much stronger. People have died from this virus after going in for a routine operation.

Really, can't everyone easily see that we are ruining the place we live? Most technology is proven to have harmful side effects about 1 generation after it's invented.
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Are you suggesting that evolution is a scientific advancement?
 
#44
For a moment I though this thread was about a recent huge water scandal in Nokia, a town outside Tampere here in Finland. A guy at a wastewater treatment plant managed to connect the poop water with the drinking water, resulting in that thousands of people got sick.

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#46
this is your brain on water.
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perfect with a side of toast.

imo, i prefer my water with drugs and without poo.
 
#49
Sir Edward V said:
If you go back far enough, that burger you ate the other day used to be someone's or something's waste... cow makes a pie on the ground, no one cleans it, eventually it decomposes and grass grows over it, later another cow eats the grass, then it becomes part of the cow, the cow is slautered and viola! you are eating cow poop. Another note: non-filtered well water has potential for so much more contamination...



ew. Someone already said it, but the plastic they use for those bottles is very low grade and can leak contaminants into the water. I use a brita filter, my water tastes great!! :D



Some bottled waters are just tap-water.



There is a new "drug" out there called winnie (don't know how it is supposed to be spelled, but it is pronounced like that pooh bear.) What people do is put their urine and other waste in a bottle or some container that will stay shut, and leave it out in the sun to ferment for a few days. then they breathe that stuff in... supposed to be a really good high I guess... sounds utterly disgusting to me...

I heard about this through the grapevine, from a friend whose dad is a copper and I guess has heard stories about this from cop friends...
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Link is [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] (pretty gross). Probably works by inducing hypoxia, due to breathing the methane and hydrogen sulfide 'sewer gas.'

And yeah, as far as wells..... we have this thing called the hydrologic cycle.....what's in the ground now had to come from somewhere, even if your well source zone is 500 feet down underground in a confined aquifer... If you're hydraulically down-gradient of a leaking gas station or old industrial plant, you're at risk of having stuff in your drinking water.

For that matter, how far is your well from your own septic system, or your neighbor's? You could be drinking someone's Thanksgiving dinner on Christmas morning.

Worst-case scenario-- Montebello, CA, a pesticide manufacturer was cleaning house and rinsed his floor off, and within three weeks eleven municipal water supply wells were contaminated; they were finding that stuff fifteen MILES from the source.
 
#51
let me just say a couple things FYI...

your drinking water has a chlorine residual between 0.2 mg/L and 1.0 mg/L. thats 1 part per MILLION. it is used as a disinfectant, while you are also ingesting parts per BILLION and TRILLION, which are so insignificant its not funny.

to the well water people, you probably also have septic tanks, guess where your well water comes from. even if you have sewer hook ups, a water treatment plant treats the same water BEFORE it gets to your tap. so which would you want?

to those that drink bottled water, guess what... its the same treatment with addition unnecessary filtration. you should still drink bottled over tap, though due to your aging/crumbling infrastructure.

and finally the wastewater plants... if only the public knew that theyre drinking treated waste. the amount of water we have on earth is the same as it was ages ago. it is a cycle. a wastewater treatment plant just speeds up the natural decomposition to be returned to the water table. the problem of todays water issues is that there are too many people on earth to sustain that same amount of water. the way we live WILL eventually kill us with pollution, but not in our lifetimes, relax.
 
#53
Sir Edward V said:
There is a new "drug" out there called winnie (don't know how it is supposed to be spelled, but it is pronounced like that pooh bear.) What people do is put their urine and other waste in a bottle or some container that will stay shut, and leave it out in the sun to ferment for a few days. then they breathe that stuff in... supposed to be a really good high I guess... sounds utterly disgusting to me...

I heard about this through the grapevine, from a friend whose dad is a copper and I guess has heard stories about this from cop friends...
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#55
Did anyone else notice that San Francisco was the one they found "sex hormones" in? Probably all the confused individuals injecting themselves with testosterone or estrogen to make them into man-women or woman-men
 
#58
Johnny Mack said:
let me just say a couple things FYI...

your drinking water has a chlorine residual between 0.2 mg/L and 1.0 mg/L. thats 1 part per MILLION. it is used as a disinfectant, while you are also ingesting parts per BILLION and TRILLION, which are so insignificant its not funny.

to the well water people, you probably also have septic tanks, guess where your well water comes from. even if you have sewer hook ups, a water treatment plant treats the same water BEFORE it gets to your tap. so which would you want?

to those that drink bottled water, guess what... its the same treatment with addition unnecessary filtration. you should still drink bottled over tap, though due to your aging/crumbling infrastructure.

and finally the wastewater plants... if only the public knew that theyre drinking treated waste. the amount of water we have on earth is the same as it was ages ago. it is a cycle. a wastewater treatment plant just speeds up the natural decomposition to be returned to the water table. the problem of todays water issues is that there are too many people on earth to sustain that same amount of water. the way we live WILL eventually kill us with pollution, but not in our lifetimes, relax.
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Well, I don't really agree on all this, but it depends on where you live I suppose... The same water companies handle both wastewater and tap water, and both are treated chemically and/or biologically, but the wastewater is not lead into the tap water after it has been cleaned.

I guess the tap water quality differs from country to country and even from town to town, but at least here in Scandinavia, the tap water is generally considered by experts to be of better quality than the bottled water. The tap water here contains significantly smaller amounts of bacterias than bottled water, and it does not contain significant amounts of chlorine either, if any. When I was in Toronto couple of years back, I noticed how the water smelled like chlorine. I have never have experienced that here, in Sweden or in Denmark...
 
#60
tampa water is fine to drink. if it wasnt, you would not have it. FDEP is not easy to please, especially if your major metropolis drinking water standards are not met. also i think they have 6 to 8 different plants, including a desal plant, an up and coming solution to high water demand. i believe this plant draws from the hillsborough bay, the same body of water the wastewater plant discharges into.
 

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