# Do we drink dinosaur urine?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 19, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-drink-dinosaur-urine/763339 "2016-08-19T20:13:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![lynceus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@lynceus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynceus)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-drink-dinosaur-urine/763339/1 "2016-08-19T20:13:27Z")

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I wouldn’t be too worried about drinking dinosaur urine. However, the good folks of St Louis drink water that has passed through the inhabitants of Minneapolis (via the Mississippi) and/or Kansas (via the Missouri), and it is again recycled via the inhabitants of Memphis and Baton Rouge before the inhabitants of New Orleans get to drink it. These are just the big cities; there are no doubt dozens of other towns that use the Mississippi for its drinking water and put the (purified, obviously) sewage back into the river.

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**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-drink-dinosaur-urine/763339/2 "2016-08-20T16:48:04Z")

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“The breakfast garbage you throw into the Bay  
They drink at lunch in San Jose.”  
–Tom Lehrer, _Pollution_

And for those of us on the east coast…

“The breakfast garbage you throw out in Troy  
They drink at lunch in Perth Amboy.”  
–Alternate version of the same song

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-drink-dinosaur-urine/763339/3 "2016-08-21T00:43:50Z")

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And if you don’t live anywhere special:

“Throw out your breakfast garbage  
And I have a hunch  
That the folks downstream  
Will drink it for lunch.”