Most people dont realized that majority of tap wter has been flushed twice already....

Wrong in Oregon it's Olympia their slogan "It's the water and a lot more"

I'm sure there's a lot worse then a man's Busch beer urine in there. It's an open pond/lake and I'm sure it's not completely clean. City officials in action with tax payers' money down the drain.

That's west coast tree huggers for ya...

So if I pee in my backyard(which I do) and the runoff goes to the water supply, It's still safe to drink?

Seems to me it was Rainier Beer that was brewed by Artesians (we always thought it was Artesian pee).

And, anytime you drink water, think about how many have drank that water before you.

How is any open top container considered treated water?

Birds poop in it. [censored] roaches get in it. If it is anything like around here, june bugs pile off in it. Rats and mice fall in it and die.

How is that treated water?

People from the land of fruits and nuts are spreading out to adjoining states and beyond...

I lived in OR most my life and it is horrible out there. It is ran by far left liberals that have no clue what planet they live on and common sense no longer exists.

If you live on the East side of Houston, during drought periods, like now, the water you are drinking and bathing in has already passed through 11 people before it came to you. Nowadays in many places they don't even put the water back to the creek, they just send the treated sewage straight to the drinking water purification plant.

ALL those nice subdivision lakes with houses around them down here, those lakes are filled with the sewage from the subdivision.

Perhaps in a place with an unlimited source of pure water they can afford to drain a lake if somebody pees in it, but here, the lakes are quite literally filled with piss.

I worked Mosquito Control in Florida, and had to deal with the large waste water polishing plant for the City of Lakeland, Federal laws make the cleanliness and purity of the water coming out of the plant to be safe enough to drink at the outflow, which is cleaner than most of the places the water is going into.

It is just the thought of drinking "Poopy Water" that turns everybody off from the idea of just pumping it directly back into the drinking water system, according to the waste water guys.

Me on the other hand like to have that little buffer in case something goes wrong and they pump raw effluent through the pipes by accident.

Sounds like publicity, their options, spend lots of money, and get our reputation up, or tell them the truth.
that ducks, fish, birds, and even rain can carry stuff into the lake.

It looks like they took the first one.

Would you say, Clownz in the office?

It wasn't a lake. It was a storage tank. Same storage tanks that birds poop in and small rodents drown in every day.

Ummm..yummy.

I s'pose it depends on the size of the tank.....a few dead rats, some bird poop and a bit of people wee in a small tank might not make for a healthy bit of tea.....

Actually, such tanks can handle some "stuff" up to a point and it not be a major issue, but when you add the human waste, even a little bit to such a stew, you can breed a pathogenic (bacterial, viral, parasitic, etc.) soup of nasty illness, some of which might pass through some treatment systems.

Then again, some of the places I've worked, and didn't get sick....a person can take a lot.