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140 million liters of water down the drain
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Richard Crowley:
Exactly the same thing has happened at least once (and maybe several times?) before.  The US federal government required the city to cover all those reservoirs years ago. But that is a blessing along with a curse.  The major source of domestic water for Portland Oregon has been the Bull Run Watershed for way over 100 years. It is one of the best city water supplies on the planet.

I sympathize with people in Southern California (my relatives, included) about their drought.  We already ship them tera watts of power on the largest DC transmission line in North America. But I don't think we can ship our excess water that way. Until they can figure out some large-scale molecule transporter.

Agreed it seems to be only public perception that has no basis in fact or science. But this wouldn't be the first example of the public being complete idiots.  Maybe they can hire one of those magicians to come in and make it appear that the reservoir has drained and re-filled.  We have far less than "normal" rainfall and snow-pack this season ourselves. They are already trying to figure out how they are going to allocate water this summer.
scientist:

--- Quote from: Stonent on April 21, 2014, 05:32:52 am ---I'd bet there are several million people in the world that would love to have 140 million liters of water contaminated with nothing more than .5L of urine.

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You bet they would. Unfortunately, distributing all that water would cost way more than filtering it from local sources.


--- Quote ---Isn't that partly why water in most of the US is slightly chlorinated so that things like this don't matter?

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In most cities, it's fluorinated with a few ug/L; helps convert the hydroxyapatite in tooth enamel into fluoroapatite, which is a bit more durable. Chlorine is usually what they dump in copious amounts into swimming pools.
han:
In India, it's not the urine that matter...


http://www.all-about-india.com/Ganges-River-Pollution.html
G7PSK:
They reckon that the water in London has been drunk three times before you get to drink it, keeping processed water in an open holding tank at ground level with no protection at all seems silly as any thing and every thing in the form of contamination can get in.
The Ganges problem is such that it affects not just India but other parts of the world, in the 1970's cooked bones for dogs were being imported from India,then some one found their dog munching on a human bone, it turned out that the company in India was collecting the bone from the Ganges before cooking or drying them in the sun, the importation was stopped by the then Ministry of Agriculture  on the grounds that it could bring foot and mouth into the country. 
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: Jarrod Roberson on April 20, 2014, 10:11:00 pm ---Doesn't matter, the majority of the general public are science deniers and live on a "belief" based system, enough of these "believers" called and complained and the path of least resistance is giving in instead of attempting to explain the facts, which would mostly likely lead to some "official" getting a call from a campaign donor and nobody wants to lose their job. This part of the US is rampant with "holistic" medicine believers that believe that "water has memory".

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Also,TV shows don't help,where Jack Bauer,or someone similar stops a terrorist from dropping a tiny vial of poison or bacteria into an huge dam.

Those materials are supposed to be capable of killing a lot of people,but the dilution is enormous,to say nothing of the hostile environment.

Pee? --chuck a bag of chlorine in,& call it good!
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