“So your point is that ‘municipal water’ isn’t safe to drink or store?? A lot of our city-dwelling bretheren will be real disappointed by this ‘news’..”
No, my point is that its not sterile. It has numerous living organisms in it already. Some have been killed by the chemicals they put in, some haven’t.
My answer was purely academic as well, intended to provide information which may keep people from poisoning themselves.
” intended to provide information which may keep people from poisoning themselves. “
I appreciate that, FRiend, and agree with the sentiment - tempered by the belief that germophobic paranoia can kill, also..
The human body is not the ‘fragile organism’ that marketers of ‘solutions-sans-problems’ would have us believe.... (I offer in evidence the side discussion in this thread about the ‘dangers’ of a couple of boys peein’ in the stream.. ;))
You know, our city water comes right out of the river - they run it thru charcaol, add chlorine, and a bit of flouride.
Been drinking it all my life, why stop now?