Over in Portland, a drunken manpissed into a water reservoir. Now they’re draining the entire godddamned reservoir, all 7.8 million gallons of it, because of 8 ounces of urine (which is sterile, by the way).
“OMG! 0.008 parts per million of urine in our drinking water!”
There’s not a lick of logical sense behind this. All the water we drink has been in the bladders of countless animals since life began. And I’m sure the reservoir hasn’t been immune to non-human animals leaving their own gifts behind. This is an absurd waste of money.
I think the local water management authorities should advertise that they have a homeless guy pee in each reservoir every day. That might help with that whole water conservation thing.
Well, that’s infinitely more concentrated than a homeopathic solution, and you know how potent they are.
ETA: I swear I will preview next time. No-one had mentioned homeopathy when I hit the reply button. That will teach me to walk away from my computer with a thread open. (Actually no, it probably won’t).
Portland does not treat the water before it enters the city’s system? That would be the only reason to respond as they did. (And have, according to your post.) A piss-poor reason, but still, at least it would be an excuse.
I hope they at least filter it out. You know, insects, fish, amphibians, leftover parts of serial killer’s victims. That sort of thing.