Another Great Sign

Subject: Another Great Sign Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:33 pm

Now you can get drinking water at the sewage disposal station.......Yuck!

Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:34 pm

Oh, and if you read the fine print, you can see that it'll cost you $3.00 to get some of that water!

Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:24 pm

Hm....I think I'll stick to bottled water, thank you.

Funny one! Thanks for sharing.
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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:28 am

All it needs is a cool bottle and French name and they could get twice as much.
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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:56 am

True.
How does anyone know where they get the water that they bottle? I do recall a company in the Atlanta area getting fined for filling bottles with tap water and selling it.

In the space capsule, they re-process/recycle urine for drinking water. In the future, we may all be drinking water that has been purified due to necessity.
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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:00 am

I think that the person who placed the sign may have had alittle too much of the water to drink!
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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:24 pm

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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:34 pm

Lin,
I'm not sure if "always have" is appropriate. There was a time when there was no purification process of any kind for drinking water. Due to pollution of the soil primarily in large metropolitan and industrial areas, drinking water became contaminated and a process for safe drinking water took hold. Distillation is the process in which water is boiled, evaporated and the vapor condensed. That would be a giantic procsss for a city like New York.
"This department is responsible for the purification of the city’s water
system. This department has 7 wells located throughout the City of Long Beach. These wells pump water from the Lloyd Aquifer to the Water Purification Plant, where it is tested, chemically treated , and transmitted to the homes throughout the City. This department tests hourly to guarantee pureness. The Department of Health also tests the quality of the water daily"

There is also well water and spring water without any purification processes. I grew up on well water. Where I live now, I drink tap water but often drink spring water - no purification. Well water and spring water can be risky if it is near areas where chemicals and other harmful bacteria, i.e., feces of animals, can be absorbed into the water systems.

What I was attempting to say in my previous post was that there may come a time when all drinking water must be treated to be safe for drinking.

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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:54 pm

I have a good well that is purified the old fashioned natural way. Since I am so near the mountains, what we are actually drinking is water from spring and runoff that is filtered through the soil before it reaches the underground lake we sit on and are tapped into. Our water is very good, and tested perfect. Actually though, it is filtered.
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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:01 pm

Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:44 am

Water purification is something I got involved with by accident.
A mobile Desalination system for use in the Saudi desert that used high temperature evaporation.
When I lived in Beirut, we boiled our water to make it safe for drinking. The simplest and least expensive way was to put a few drops of Chlorox into the water and then boil it for a few minutes.

Using filters, as Zada mentioned, is still advisable for well water to be on the safe side.

Since our waters are being polluted from various means and contaminants, knowing how to create safe drinking water is advisable. It doesn't have to be expensive.
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Excellent. Bottle it up and sell it for $4.
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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:46 pm

I think I've seen those signs before ... at rest areas.

They have areas for RVs to dump their ... uh, stuff.

There is sometimes drinkable water available too.

I've never noticed them charging for the water at rest areas before, but then I usually get my water from elsewhere.
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Subject: Re: Another Great Sign Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:49 am

Do you remember the days when you sat down at a table in a restuarant, diner or whatever, and the first thing they did was place a glass of water in front of you. I suppose that went out when they stopped servicing your car at a "service" station.
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