LA Water Supply Contaminated

[Germanicus]

http://www.trbimg.com/img-534d54bf/turbine/la-nation-now-header-20140415/600 (http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow)


Teen urinates in reservoir; officials to flush 38M gallons; L.A. weeps

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-urinate-oregon-reservoir-20140417,0,6853751.story#ixzz2zAo4GPeC


Isnt there a drought on in California or something? Do you really need to flush all that water just because of some boys pee? Fish are peeing in there you know. And god only knows what else.

What do environmentalists say? Drink the pee? Should environmentalists drink the pee?


Shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, a 19-year-old in a hoodie and baggy jeans was captured on a grainy black-and-white surveillance video urinating into a reservoir that slakes the thirst of Portland, Ore.’s 600,000 or so residents. (Cue the disgusted “Ewwwwwwwws!” right here.)
But really, Portland Water Bureau officials, do you have to flush 38 million gallons of potable water for the sake of a cup or two of human urine? That’s how much the bladder comfortably holds, although the bladder in question obviously wasn’t comfortable.
We get the fact that Beervana prides itself on its water supply. The water bureau has a Facebook page, a YouTube presence and a Flickr site. You can follow it on Twitter (@portlandwater). It even has a bumper sticker: “I only drink tap water.”


http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-urinate-oregon-reservoir-20140417,0,6853751.story#ixzz2zAp1PL9X




How do you think we feel, when we hear the whoosh of 38 million gallons going to waste? We’re in a drought, remember? Not good. No, not good at all.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-urinate-oregon-reservoir-20140417,0,6853751.story#ixzz2zApDO3LC



It does seem very American to be doing this.

I do know how you feel though. I was watching an ad a while ago for bottled water that comes from some creek here in Australia. On the ad there are Aboriginal kids swimming in the creek. When I saw that I was like - hmmm. Im not buying any of that bottled water.

But still. I think you guys should drink the pee.

Is this how we take USA down? Pee in all of your water supplies? Well this is going to be easier than we thought. (:jokes.

In my honest opinion envronmentalists should be forced to drink the pee in the name of conservation.

Do you think this water should have been wasted? Or would you drink urine?

[Germanicus]

Look, does this make you want to drink their water? It makes me think- hmm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Xv3VJyIpw

To be honest I much prefer this one they did with Jeniffer Hawkins. But Im still not drinking Mount Franklin water after that other commercial.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPVu6L1rZHE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qojASZw57bo&feature=kp


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF2ayWcJfxo&feature=kp

Should people really be drinking tap water in this day and age? Really. Maybe we make environmentalists bathe in it? That is a lot of water to waste Im sure environmentalists would agree. What say the whale lovers? Drink it? Bathe in it? Or waste it. Couldnt it be treated?

[1751_Texan]

Isnt there a drought on in California or something? Do you really need to flush all that water just because of some boys pee? Fish are peeing in there you know. And god only knows what else.

What do environmentalists say? Drink the pee? Should environmentalists drink the pee?





It does seem very American to be doing this.

I do know how you feel though. I was watching an ad a while ago for bottled water that comes from some creek here in Australia. On the ad there are Aboriginal kids swimming in the creek. When I saw that I was like - hmmm. Im not buying any of that bottled water.

But still. I think you guys should drink the pee.

Is this how we take USA down? Pee in all of your water supplies? Well this is going to be easier than we thought. (:jokes.

In my honest opinion envronmentalists should be forced to drink the pee in the name of conservation.

Do you think this water should have been wasted? Or would you drink urine?

LA times[California] is the story's source, Portland OR [Oregon]is where the incident occured.


6860

It is a ridiculous decision either way.

[Germanicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nf78f9jPu0

[Germanicus]

LA times[California] is the story's source, Portland OR [Oregon]is where the incident occured. 6860 It is a ridiculous decision either way. Whoops. Why is LA weeping agin? Oh the drought. edit- So what you are saying is that you would drink pee. As long as it was only a small amount? (:

[Common Sense]

Wait, so you're not supposed to pee in the lake?

[1751_Texan]

Whoops. Why is LA weeping agin? Oh the drought.

The LA basin, southren Cal, and the central valley have be in a drought since I was a kid.

[waltky]

Graphene membrane purifies water...
:cool2:
Nanotechnology Can Help Deliver Affordable, Clean Water
March 28, 2016 - Clean drinking water is essential for good health and disease prevention. But according to the World Health Organization, some 663 million people — one out of every 10 people in the world — do not have access to safe water. The high cost of water purification devices keeps clean water out of reach for many communities, especially in developing countries. But science may soon help solve this problem.


Researchers have developed nano-scaled membranes that could filter contaminants from water faster and more cheaply than current methods. Developing the perfect water filter is Baoxia Mi's goal. Growing up in China in the 1980s, she learned the value of clean drinking water early on. Her interest in water and the environment has inspired her career. Recently, at the University of California, Berkeley, she's pioneering research in purifying drinking water and wastewater in new ways.

The environmental engineer is developing a new type of membrane that could be more efficient than today's water filtration technology and consume less energy in the process. It's made up of layers of graphene, 100,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. "We made it from graphite, which is a material that we use in pencils for example, so it's cheap and relatively abundant,” she said. “So we can use that, and the process that we use to make [it] from the graphite to the graphene oxide is actually quite scalable."

Testing possibilities

That means the membranes could be adapted to filter water from a faucet, as well as for large systems used to treat wastewater. The membranes are much like a maze for water molecules. The water passes through a series of layers separated by spaces specifically designed to remove different types of contaminants. "In order to kind of remove different targeted molecules," Mi explained, "the most direct way of thinking about it is to control the spacing that we have between the layers."

The researchers are working on further improvements, and Mi told VOA the nano-filters could be available in a few years. Her team hopes their work will contribute to finding solutions to water purification worldwide, making clean water affordable and available for people everywhere.

Video http://www.voanews.com/content/nanotechnology-help-deliver-affordable-clean-water/3258411.html

[southwest88]

Isnt there a drought on in California or something? Do you really need to flush all that water just because of some boys pee? Fish are peeing in there you know. And god only knows what else.

What do environmentalists say? Drink the pee? Should environmentalists drink the pee?


It does seem very American to be doing this.

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1. The pee in the reservoir story in OR is nearly two years old. So this is pretty stale news - if it ever was news.

2. I don't recall what the water authority people in OR finally did. They were debating covering the open reservoir, to keep animals from fouling the water.

3. There's only so much water in the World - barring some gain from asteroids, etc., & some loss to the solar wind & so on. Of course we're drinking whatever comes through in the water - it's a serious problem. Lots of drugs, fertilizers, hormones, industrial chem & other biologically active agents pass through most of the current water treatment/sewage treatment plants in the US.

4. Yah, coastal CA has always been short of potable water. The early Spanish colonial attempts there failed for lack of drinking/irrigation water. CA doesn't - TMK - get its drinking water from OR - but not for lack of trying. If they could get primary water rights, I'm sure CA would drain the entire western US to attempt to slake their thirst. (Read The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi, Knopf, c2015, 371pp - a dystopian novel on this very topic, set in the near-future US SW. A great read, I enjoyed it thoroughly. With any luck, someone will make an excellent movie out of it.)