Name: 我们的饮用水中到底含有什么（What's REALLY in Our Drinking Water?）
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Just because drinking water is clear, doesn't mean there aren't tiny things living in there.

Greetings programs, Trace here, thanks for watching DNews.

Last weekend, a teenager in Portland, Oregon released the contents of his bladder into

As a result of the public outcry, the city will spend who-knows-how-much to dump 38 MILLION

Water has to be cleaned and then stored somewhere, and sometimes it's water towers, sometimes

it's large tanks and sometimes... for some reason... in man made, open ponds.

In fact they don't just come in them, they swim and poop and pee and live and wash and

In fact, the Portland City Water Bureau Administrator David Schaff said, they have a commitment

to clean water "That doesn't include pee.

HE BASICALLY ADMITTED OTHER THINGS PEE IN IT.

According to MATH, the typical human urination produces about two cups (400-500mL), a VERY

Of that, 95 percent is water which leaves about five teaspoons of waste.

38 million gallons dumped because of five teaspoons -- which works out to about 0.000000017

Drinking water, even bottled, will often contain organic and inorganic material, pesticides,

The EPA says ZERO is often the goal for dangerous things, but their Maximum Safe Contaminant

In SAFE drinking water there is more Dichloroethene which in high concentrations would cause cancer,

Thallium which in high concentrations would cause Hair loss; changes in blood as well

Even Mercury from landfill runoff, cyanide from steel mill runoff, and so on.

The Upper SAFE limit for coliforms -- which are bacteria living on fecal material -- is

The bacteria themselves doesn't indicate poop is in the water.

So you're probably drinking weird things anyway.

I call this the Spotlight Effect, if we didn't SEE this person peeing in the reservoir, it

And even though decades of health science, regulation and testing make tap water all

over the country extremely safe Portland is dumping it.

Science doesn't always win in these cases.

People feel weird about drinking the water!

There's an easy way to fix this, but it's expensive.

The State of Oregon has plans to button up their drop top reservoirs by 2020, but for

In 2008, the city dumped 8 million gallons after a dude peed in it.

In 2011, a couple skinny dippers caused another dump // REALLY?!

*smh* // But overall this won't affect anything with Portland's water anyway.

They store 35 billion gallons of water for the city, 35 million is a literal drop in

I'd drink that water anyway, ship it down to the deserts!

Tell us what you'd want to do with all that H2O down in the comments and thank you all

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And if this got you squeamish check out my buddy Talal's story about other shocking things