In Peru we were told to get sparkling because some places would re-fill still bottles with tap.
Not just Peru. It happened to me in Spain. I actually saw the guy take an empty bottle and start to fill it from the tap. I hate sparkling water and refuse to order it, so after that I just drank the tap water. I never had any problems with it, I just had that held over prejudice that any country other than America was going to do nasty things to my intestines if I drank their water. Come to find out, it's not that the water is bad, just that each area has different microorganisms than what you stomach is used to. Once you get used to them, the tummy problems disappear. Coming back from Spain one time (to Virginia) I had quite a problem adapting to the water. My first week back I spent a lot of my break time in the bathroom. But then my system acknowledged the intruders, decided they weren't harmful and quit giving me grief.
Toddson is not wrong about DC's water in general, but it is also not going to burn through your clothes or anything.
Even though my building is circa 1860, I've got copper water lines as opposed to the lead ones causing all the trouble.
t Raising my hand also to be kept in the Nilly loop for DC activities
I considered administering a revitalized DCista list but wonder how much interest there would be in using one.
I guess I should make that a question, eh?
DCistas
Raise your hand (or send an email to my profile addy) if you would like to be included in/use a local contact list.
Signed,
Never one to shirk a chance to be responsible for something. it's a disease
what the hell is a hetch hetchy?
It was allegedly prettier than Yosemite. They dammed it up. All our water and power come from that dam.
Even though my building is circa 1860, I've got copper water lines as opposed to the lead ones causing all the trouble.
With older copper pipes, there can still be a lead problem, because lead was used in soldering them.
With older copper pipes, there can still be a lead problem, because lead was used in soldering them.
This is true. I suppose I should get the water tested, but I use a schmancy filter on the sink and another (not so schmancy) on the shower head. Doesn't make the water taste Cape Cod good, but I'm assuming it won't kill me or the fuzzball.
(it was very sad to hear that a greyhound in our park suffered from lead poisoning. eep.)
In Peru we were told to get sparkling because some places would re-fill still bottles with tap.
It's the same in India. (And over there, it's not so much the unfamiliar local microcritters as it is typhoid. So we carried our own water everywhere and drank a lot of soda.)
Beej, a filter probably catches the lead. The other thing is to let the water run (cold) for a good 5 minutes, every morning before you use it for drinking, cooking, etc. Warm water, and water standing in the pipes draws the lead out of the pipes. A good flushing with cold water (any time you haven't used the pipes for hours) gets a lot of the pipe/solder caused lead out.
A greyhound suffered from lead poisoning? That's scary. The poor pupper.
it's not so much the unfamiliar local microcritters as it is typhoid
Yes, indeed. My aunt and uncle got a very nasty case of whatever in Katmandu. And they toted their own water. The only thing they can think is that some food was prepared with bad water. Makes you grateful to live where water treatment plants exist.
Heather - I have MS Works Database and Access and probably some goofy mac specific thing.
Hurray for Water Treatment!
I really do work for the Sewage and Water Board. At a water treatment plant.
Huh- the Mac specific one was the one I didn't think I could use since it was Mac specific- so we're all set then. If I do it from home it'll be Access, from work- Mac thingie.
