Portland residents just received their annual water quality report, something that would normally go unnoticed by most if there hadn’t recently been a big to-do in the national media about finding trace amounts of caffeine, Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, and anti-biotics in several major cities drinking water supply. Portland was one of the cities identified, and the Water Bureau has done an excellent job of presenting water quality and addressing the contaminants:
“At the amounts detected, an individual would have to drink 1 gallon of water a day for more than 13,000 years to consume the equivalent of one Tylenol.”
Now there’s some perspective.
I do a half-cringe, half-laugh when I see people buying bottled water in Portland. The Bull Run water is the most wonderful drinking water I’ve ever had. The stuff in Wyoming was pretty good, Yakima was OK (the well water in the Nob Hill area is gross), and the water in Nebraska was wretched. Every time we fly back to visit I’m always so happy to be back at the Denver airport to get some good water again. I guess I’m a water snob.
Bottled water baffles me. Doesn’t the Pepsi product say right on it that it’s tap water?
…now now…it’s “municipally sourced” (Coca-Cola too)
Don’t sell yourself short. You’re a snob of many things. For instance:
You’re a beer snob.
You’re a sandwich snob.
I’d call you a sausage snob, but that just sounds weird.
You’ve got me pegged Joe.