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04-17-2014, 12:39 PM #1
Today's WTF, or, this is not The Onion
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/us...ir.html?ref=us
Oregon: Water Supply to Be Discarded Over Urine in Reservoir
Portland will flush millions of gallons of treated water because a 19-year-old was caught urinating Wednesday into an open reservoir. David Shaff, the Water Bureau administrator, said 38 million gallons would be discarded. Two years ago, the city drained a reservoir in a similar situation. The urine poses little health risk, but city officials do not want customers to think the water is tainted.
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04-17-2014, 12:44 PM #2Funky But Chic
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Well it is kind of icky.
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04-17-2014, 12:45 PM #3
Bears do it.
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04-17-2014, 12:48 PM #4
They should invite all of the locals to do it, and then invite the Corona folks to open a brewery downstream.
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04-17-2014, 01:42 PM #5
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04-17-2014, 01:43 PM #6
So the TREATED water is in an OPEN reservoir - it goes straight to the tap from there. I'd be more worried about bird shit that a little piss.
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04-17-2014, 01:49 PM #7Registered User
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Dilution is the solution to pollution....
But not in Portland.
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04-17-2014, 05:12 PM #8
Your nanny state at work.
DNC: The party of gays, gungrabbers, wets, welfare queens, babykillers and ambulance chasers.
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end.
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04-17-2014, 05:24 PM #9Registered User
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This is one of the dumbest things I have read all week.
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
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04-17-2014, 05:31 PM #10
Didn't Portland do the same thing a few years ago? What a waste.
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04-17-2014, 05:33 PM #11
what makes it worse is that it happened last year too.
Real issue though is not the little pee (in an open air reservoir of 38 million gallons of water with plenty of animal life in it) that necessitates the draining, but rather the city is facing a lot of local backlash over the need to cover these reservoirs, arguably for federal gov't compliance, at a huge expense and so the city is using this as a public way to say, "see, we need to do cover these, to keep people safe from icky pee"
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04-17-2014, 05:48 PM #12
Well if they just agreed to fluoridate the water this wouldn't be an issue
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04-17-2014, 07:02 PM #13
I'm pretty sure that teenager was Floridating the water.
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04-17-2014, 07:14 PM #14
Long boarders did it. Close cousin of the Showboarder
There's a 9 min utube vid.
Ever notice how much gear boarders be havingZone Controller
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04-17-2014, 07:31 PM #15
Now that is retarded.
watch out for snakes
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04-17-2014, 08:35 PM #16
somewhere...... out there....... bear grylls weeps
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04-17-2014, 09:05 PM #17Registered User
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#HughConwayMatters
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04-18-2014, 12:19 AM #18
They should send the water to california.
But Ellen kicks ass - if she had a beard it would be much more haggard. -Jer
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04-18-2014, 12:20 AM #19
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04-18-2014, 12:52 AM #20
Did you know urine is sterile? That's right, you can drink it.
Thanks, Tyler Durden. Do hipsters not read Fight Club anymore?
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04-18-2014, 01:26 AM #21But Ellen kicks ass - if she had a beard it would be much more haggard. -Jer
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04-18-2014, 01:37 AM #22
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04-18-2014, 01:45 AM #23
This is what I was talking about.
But Ellen kicks ass - if she had a beard it would be much more haggard. -Jer
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04-18-2014, 02:42 AM #24
Huh interesting, didn't know that. Looks like it's a start before doing more research. I guess then the question is does the benefit of reduced dental issues outweigh the reduced brain function? At least I think dental issues are the reason for the fluoride? It's really not something I've read about except stopping in Portland just before they voted on it. I'll look at it this weekend
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04-18-2014, 07:37 AM #25
Well...it's Portland.
Isn't the water chlorinated before it gets to you tap, anyway? Never mind all the animals pissing and shitting and jizzing in there already.
There's no way urine is sterile, that has to be a myth. Besides, there's this thing called a urinary tract infection.
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