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Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Nutrition: Health
They say that what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Somehow I doubt that is any consolation to the Jain family, who recently discovered that the tap water they have been drinking for the past five months was actually treated waste water.
Vinay Jain said he knew that the water flowing from his tap water tasted a little funny, but otherwise didn't give it much thought. The first clue that something might be actually be wrong with his drinking water was when workers shut off the irrigation pipe in his suburban Raleigh, North Carolina neighborhood and his tap water quit flowing. While his neighbors could no longer water their lawns, his sprinkler system kept working fine.
Somehow, the pipes had been switched and the water coming from the faucet was actually treated waste water intended for watering lawns, not human consumption. Officials say they don't know how the mix-up happened, but that one would have to drink a lot of the waste water in one sitting to get an infectious dose of coliform bacteria. But clearly drinking treated waste water isn't good for you - state regulations ban water systems from using it for drinking water.
My house has an in-ground sprinkler system that uses what we call 'carcass water' because it makes its way to my neighborhood in open canals that wind through farmlands in the area. We assume that there will be the occasional dead animal in the canal and you could not pay me to drink that stuff.
Vinay Jain said he knew that the water flowing from his tap water tasted a little funny, but otherwise didn't give it much thought. The first clue that something might be actually be wrong with his drinking water was when workers shut off the irrigation pipe in his suburban Raleigh, North Carolina neighborhood and his tap water quit flowing. While his neighbors could no longer water their lawns, his sprinkler system kept working fine.
Somehow, the pipes had been switched and the water coming from the faucet was actually treated waste water intended for watering lawns, not human consumption. Officials say they don't know how the mix-up happened, but that one would have to drink a lot of the waste water in one sitting to get an infectious dose of coliform bacteria. But clearly drinking treated waste water isn't good for you - state regulations ban water systems from using it for drinking water.
My house has an in-ground sprinkler system that uses what we call 'carcass water' because it makes its way to my neighborhood in open canals that wind through farmlands in the area. We assume that there will be the occasional dead animal in the canal and you could not pay me to drink that stuff.
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7-26-2007 @ 12:41PM
Ginny said..."They say that wasn't doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. "
Quick, change it to "what" before anyone notices. lol
I saw this story earlier. GAG!!! GAG!!! AND MORE GAG!!!! Here I am always telling people that tap water is fine and a story like this pops up.
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7-26-2007 @ 12:59PM
LS said...It's the little things, like this story, that make me thankful that I have a well and softener system. A little more work than city water, but my water is clean. And not all chemically and full of crap.
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7-26-2007 @ 2:15PM
Ethel said...Whew LS - it could be full of nitrates and arsenic! What about sulfur compounds as well as calcium?
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7-26-2007 @ 4:13PM
Tina said...I don't know about LS, but I know that we have our well water tested periodically. It has always tested super clean. It tastes like bottled spring water, or better. No chemicals, no crap, no hazardous elements/compounds. I'm very glad that we don't have municipal water.
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