JT> You can call it what you will, but they call it economical
JT> running of the water supply company. After all, why fix a
JT> problem that isn't a problem yet. Even if it stands to kill
JT> anyone? It hasn't killed anyone yet, so let's sweep it under
JT> the carpet and not worry about it for now... 

 Yair. How cynical can you get? How many have to die? I hear that
droid on the radio, but I can't believe it! It will cost $800 million
to fix, so they decide to let a few die! And this is a Labor Party!

JT> Have you heard the latest droid voice on the radio telling
JT> everyone that the water boil alert is now over? The voice goes
JT> on to say that you now need not boil water, except for those
JT> who are hiv positive, are being treated for cancer, or for
JT> those suspeptable to infections -where those people have been
JT> recommended to drink only boiled water ANYWAY-.

 Yair... I was ahead of you. Funny you should call her a "droid."
Roberta Robot.

JT> What is the determining factor of what crap is "safe" to drink?
JT> Is anything that doesn't give you the squirts for the next week
JT> safe? Anything that doesn't make you double up in stomach
JT> cramps safe?

 Scary business. They didn't fix it, they just ignored it.

 I got caught well and truly, the second time. They gave the
all-clear so I drank the water, mixed up my skim milk powder... and
then they say, "DON'T DRINK THE WATER. WE WERE ONLY KIDDING!" I reckon
that I was dead-set for the squirts, but I didn't feel a thing. That
was when I relaised I was immune to crypto, and that the only way for
that to happen was that the water "filtration" plant didn't, and
hadnlt, since they put it in 4 years ago.

JT> Bloody hell, Adelaide water is safe to drink. It looks like
JT> diluted shit, and tastes like it too, but it won't kill you.
JT> And regardless of the fact that it won't make you ill, does the
JT> fact that just about EVERYONE in adelaide have some form of
JT> water purification system or rain tank make you wonder? 

 Adelaide is a different situation. They're ratshit because they
donlt have an alternative... short of desalination. Sydney is a
high-rainfall area. Sydney has several big dams. It's just a matter of
keeping the shit and the water, separate. Even bloody boongs know you
have to shit downstream.

 It's not just drinking water. I got by with tea, beer, wine, and a
litre of bottled water a week. The problem is that when you shower in
shit... you always end up swallowing a bit.

Regards,
Bob

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