• Portland urinates it's reservoir
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[quote] [t]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74300000/jpg/_74300971_74300966.jpg[/t] The US city of Portland, Oregon, is dumping 38m gallons (143m litres) of water from its reservoir after a teenager was caught urinating into the water supply. [/quote] [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27069611]Source[/url] [url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/17/water-reservoir-urination/7814581/]Alt Source (Video included)[/url] That sick fuck dares to piss into possible drinking water. What is this world coming to?
And think how much bird crap and everything else falls into these open drinking water reservoirs.
Well that explains why Portland hipsters are so full of piss.
Emergency water supply: No Swimming! No Spitting! and especially no pissing into the reservoir! THIS MEANS YOU!
[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;44571855]And think how much bird crap and everything else falls into these open drinking water reservoirs.[/QUOTE] This guy raises a good point. Seriously, I bet there are much worse things in the water than that. It's disgusting, but not [I]really[/I] that much of a problem to warrant such drastic measures. A little piss diluted in 143,000,000 liters of water, who the fuck cares?
[QUOTE=EvacX;44571871]This guy raises a good point. Seriously, I bet there are much worse things in the water than that. It's disgusting, but not [I]really[/I] that much of a problem to warrant such drastic measures. A little piss diluted in 143,000,000 liters of water, who the fuck cares?[/QUOTE] An official even brought it up [quote]Portland water administrator David Shaff said the health risk was small. Mr Shaff said while animal waste often found its way into the reservoir without any public health risk, there was "at least a perceived difference from my perspective" on human waste.[/quote]
I wouldn't fucking care as long as its purified and cleaned properly. Wasting all the water for shame.
wouldnt they clean the water before doing anything with it anyways??? i would be shocked if that isnt the case
[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;44571855]And think how much bird crap and everything else falls into these open drinking water reservoirs.[/QUOTE] Well, say the dude had some sorta body-fluid-transferable disease. Most diseases don't transfer very well from animals to humans, but from humans to humans is super good for them.
[QUOTE=Riller;44572274]Well, say the dude had some sorta body-fluid-transferable disease. Most diseases don't transfer very well from animals to humans, but from humans to humans is super good for them.[/QUOTE] wonder if it would be cheaper to dump all the water or to just get him tested
This has happened many times before over the years.
Why the fuck isn't your reservoir covered or something, if it is filled by rain make a wall around it or something
Thought it said Poland for a sec and I got really confused
[QUOTE=Riller;44572274]Well, say the dude had some sorta body-fluid-transferable disease. Most diseases don't transfer very well from animals to humans, but from humans to humans is super good for them.[/QUOTE] This is a stupid argument. Even if he did, it would be so dilute it wouldn't cause any harm. No to mention the cleaning process would get rid of it.
But isn't water purified in the plant before being sent off to cities?
While I, too, agree that wasting 7M because of something like that is stupid, peeing on the water[I] that you may drink later down the road[/I] isn't the brightest thing to do, either.
I live just a few streets away from the reservoirs, this is the second time some one has pissed in in a few years. Doesn't make sense to me to drain the whole thing with how diluted the piss is going to be, especially because theres 3 different reservoirs(in that one area), the one in the OP being the smallest [editline]17th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Coment;44572845]While I, too, agree that wasting 7M because of something like that is stupid, peeing on the water[I] that you may drink later down the road[/I] isn't the brightest thing to do, either.[/QUOTE] there are even signs placed about every 10 feet on the fence surrounding it [IMG]http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/IgZkDNrKQVA/0.jpg[/IMG]
Most of Texas's water supply comes from man made lakes which people live on, play on, piss, shit, and die in. Is one kid passing really an issue? Is their water not filtered at all?
Upon watching the security cam footage it was the largest (in that area) that the guy pissed in, so yeah
[quote]Three men ages 18 and 19 were cited for trespassing. One of the 19-year-olds was cited for public urination. Prosecutors are deciding whether to charge any of the three with a crime.[/quote] What the fuck? Peeing in a public drinking water reservoir should be a misdemeanor offense at the least. They're adults and knew full well about what they were doing, now the city has to dump that water and they only get a slap on the wrist.
I hope they don't seal off the reservoir because it's a nice walk
[QUOTE=Amez;44573072]What the fuck? Peeing in a public drinking water reservoir should be a misdemeanor offense at the least. They're adults and knew full well about what they were doing, now the city has to dump that water and they only get a slap on the wrist.[/QUOTE] prison is still a little too harsh for that, give them a big fine
I don't know why we still keep open reservoirs like that. They're being exposed to a whole bunch of shit in the air, bird shit from the sky, and other stuff in the environment. At the very least, they should have some form of roof over it to protect it.
So millions of gallons of water must be dumped every single time some asshole decides to take a piss in it? Don't we have like...some sort of...water protecting technology or some shit? Like...I dunno...put a plastic lid on it?
[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;44573383]I don't know why we still keep open reservoirs like that. They're being exposed to a whole bunch of shit in the air, bird shit from the sky, and other stuff in the environment. At the very least, they should have some form of roof over it to protect it.[/QUOTE] Well that isn't usually any problem because the water should get filtered and cleaned before landing in your home. The problem here is that they don't want to risk it in-case this guy had any dangerous diseases (aids??) and it didn't get filtered properly
[QUOTE=Amez;44573072]What the fuck? Peeing in a public drinking water reservoir should be a misdemeanor offense at the least. They're adults and knew full well about what they were doing, now the city has to dump that water and they only get a slap on the wrist.[/QUOTE] HAS to dump that water? No. The city is being fucking retarded, and anyone involved in that decision should be dragged out and beaten. Fucking imbeciles. It's not like the West Coast is prone to fucking droughts or anything. [QUOTE=Sokrates;44573496]Well that isn't usually any problem because the water should get filtered and cleaned before landing in your home. The problem here is that they don't want to risk it in-case this guy had any dangerous diseases (aids??) and it didn't get filtered properly[/QUOTE] Anything he had would be dead or diluted to the point where it's not an issue. This is inexcusable waste.
Dumping the water was a stupid knee-jerk reaction. If that water is not going to a filter plant before being distributed that's a huge problem. Like I said, all of Texas' lakes are man made reservoirs which people live on like recreational lakes. There's fish, old cars, dead people that have never been found, etc etc. It all goes through multistage filters to the point that all that literal shit is irrelevant. Dumping 38 million gallons of water is so hilariously stupid its almost offensive because people could use that water. Anyone here live in Houston? South of Lake Conroe and Lake Livingston? Guess what you're drinking.
NEWSFLASH, if you live in Arizona, your drinking water IS PISS! ... Well, rather water that was filtered OUT of piss... and shit, and EVERYTHING that went into the sewer system. That's right, Arizona is one of the ONLY states that actually filtrates its waste water enough to put it right back into the system. People thought it was only golf courses but nope! It's our whole water system and guess what? We're not having an insane (yes we still have a water shortage) water shortage like the entirety of California is. In fact, they're telling us that we have to SHARE our recycle piss-water.
Well to play devil's advocate most of our water comes from the [URL="http://www.portlandoregon.gov/water/29784"]Bull Run Watershed[/URL] so they just fill it back up with water from that and then dump the old water, in the Willamette river most likely, which would probably increase the quality of water in the river by like .5% for a day at most.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;44573664]NEWSFLASH, if you live in Arizona, your drinking water IS PISS! ... Well, rather water that was filtered OUT of piss... and shit, and EVERYTHING that went into the sewer system. That's right, Arizona is one of the ONLY states that actually filtrates its waste water enough to put it right back into the system. People thought it was only golf courses but nope! It's our whole water system and guess what? We're not having an insane (yes we still have a water shortage) water shortage like the entirety of California is. In fact, they're telling us that we have to SHARE our recycle piss-water.[/QUOTE] Water still tastes like rusty shit though. :v:
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