Shanghai drinking water supply
 

Bring your bottled water to the room:

900 dead pigs found floating in a Shanghai river that is drinking water source for residents | StarTribune.com

Cheers,
Beertini

Even though I am big fan of bacon, my water tasting like bacon is taking it a little too far.

Absolutely gross :eek:

You mean there was a time when you actually drank or brushed your teeth with the tap water in Shanghai?

.........or took a shower with your eyes and mouth open? :eek:

OOPS, I wasn't suppose to do that? I thought that was only in India:) Back to the drawing board!

No Worries!
 

The municipal authorities said the retrieved pigs would be collected and handled in a harmless way.



According to the labels pinned in the ears of the pigs which are used to trace their information, the dead pigs are found to come from the upstream waters of the Huangpu River.



The local authorities are conducting coordinated efforts to stop the dumping of dead pigs from the source.



Local media reports said the pigs mainly came from Shanghai's neighboring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.



The water quality of Shanghai has not been affected by the floating dead pigs, according to the city's water supply bureau.

But fear not: just like Fukushima (which has its 2 year anniversary today) was reported by the government for days and days to be just a minor blip and only conspiracy theorists were allowed to associate dangerous radioactivity with a nuclear power plant explosion, so pigs in a river are, according to China, perfectly normal:


"The data of water quality are all within the normal range," said the bureau.

I caught a fungus in one ear on a Shanghai layover, in that old hotel before the Hilton. I was deaf on that side for awhile. Good times.

So, what killed the pigs? :confused:

Burger King?

Chuck Norris.

The drinking water, obviously.

Pretty sure it was the sequester

I sent the original story late last night to a friend who resides in Shanghi with her family (saw it on another source). It was not on their local news.

Yea, right, it was the water that gave you the fungus! :rolleyes:;)

It could be worse...

Someone notify Catering.

They are already taking part in the clean-up ... pork fried rice for months !

A group of rouge Southwest pilots. Kittens are for children.

Atlanta Journal says the number is now over 2,800 pigs.

2,800 pigs dumped in Shanghai river raises concern | www.ajc.com

MG2

What the...Southwest pilots are wearing red makeup on their cheeks?

It's important to keep everything in perspective.

Let's think of the positive.

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It's actually pretty good.






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3300...and counting.....plus a virus.

China's "Hogwash" Getting Worse As Floating Dead Pigs Rise To 3300, Pig Virus Found | Zero Hedge

latest update...

Hogwash Update - Latest Number Of Floating Chinese Pigs: 5,916 And Rising Fast | Zero Hedge

Man, that is nasty. As they said in the article, not only a health issue, a moral one too. :(

Re-considering vegetarianism.

I wonder where the company fills the aircraft with potable water?

Hmmm...good question :mad:

Now you know what it is called the Nan Poo river.

I've been leery (not "O'Leary") about the "potable" water for years.

Aircrew Health - Aircraft Drinking Water Quality

Is Drinking and Handwashing Water on Planes Safe? on MedicineNet.com

Basic ADWR Information | Aircraft Drinking Water Rule | US EPA

The nice part is that, unlike the passenger aircraft, our water sits in the tanks for a long time before it is refilled, so things have plenty of time to grow and chemicals have plenty of time to leach into the water.

Ask a mechanic some time what the water looks like when they drain it.