I think we should ban tap water in all public places and tax it to pay for health care.

[TahitiNut]

Too many people are addicted to tap water ... a clear danger to themselves and others.

In addition, The Center for Study of Responsive Law's, Troubled Water on Tap report, states that over 2,100 contaminants have been found in drinking water. Of those 2,100, 190 are known to cause adverse health effects. In total, 97 carcinogens, 82 mutagens and suspected mutagens (cause cell mutations), 23 tumor promoters and 28 acute and chronic toxic contaminants have been detected in U.S. drinking water.
http://www.bidness.com/esd/showering.htm

"A long, hot shower can be dangerous. The toxic chemicals are inhaled in high concentrations." - Bottom Line - August 1987, J Andelman, Ph. D.

"We conclude that skin absorption of contaminants in drinking water has been underestimated and that ingestion may not constitute the sole or even primary route of exposure." - American Journal of Public Health, May, 1984, Vol. 74, No. 5

Besides ... thousands of deaths each year are directly attributable to over-exposure to dihydrogen monoxide. Furthermore, nearly EVERY human death can be related to exposure to water.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Dihydrogen monoxide

Very dangerous stuff!

Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division

[Az]

5. Dangit, beat me to it. People just don't understand the dangers posed by DHMO

It is one of the most deadly substances around us and yet few are even aware of its problems.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. The primary cause of death for more than four thousand Americans per year

And there's no statistics on the number of animal related fatalities.

Very dangerous indeed.

[jus_the_facts]

2. Been gettin' a warning letter for over 2 years that our tap water causes cancer....

....from trihalomethane. :evilfrown:

Chlorination has made the U.S. water supply safe from illness producing bacteria, viruses and parasites. Fortunately for our country chlorine disinfection technology has almost completely eliminated from our lives the risks of waterborne diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, and dysentery. However, the health benefit of chlorination has introduced some possible risks from the byproducts of the disinfection process.

Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) are a byproduct of chlorinating water that contains natural organics. The water of southwest Florida has always had these organics derived from decaying plant materials and thus, we have probably always had TTHM in our chlorinated water. A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency survey discovered that trihalomethanes are present in virtually all chlorinated water supplies. Many years ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) required large towns and cities to reduce TTHM levels in potable water. However, recent changes in national drinking water quality standards now require that water treatment systems of smaller towns begin to reduce TTHM. TTHM do not pose a high health risk compared to waterborne diseases, but they are among the most important water quality issues to be addressed in the U.S. water supply.

http://www.southerndatastream.com/thm/

[TahitiNut]

3. Just another scheme by the fundies to get us to take cold showers.

:evilgrin:

I once reduced the risk by sharing a shower. (sigh) Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

[IndianaJones]

4. guns don't kill people...people kill people. nt.

[TahitiNut]

7. In the shower! (It's really Psycho!)

:evilgrin:

[ComerPerro]

8. pathetic attempt at satire. Not suprised.

if its not gun nuts its smokers.

[TahitiNut]

9. Somebody piss in your corn flakes?

Every morning? :eyes:


Get a toilet. :shrug:

[ComerPerro]

10. i have a toilet, yet they still piss in my corn flakes.

sorry, but it is just lame satire. Reminds me of the last time I was at the movie theatre, some douchebag idiot behind us kept commenting on shit like, "Oh yeah, go to the concession stand and get popcorn, but don't smoke in the movie theatre" as though they were somehow equal arguments.

[TahitiNut]

11. Not everyone can be as enlightened and 'saved.'

It must be tough living among lesser mortals. :shrug:

[ComerPerro]

12. you want to compare people being poisoned by tap water to chainsmoking morons, fine, whatever

it is shameful and dishonest, but whatever floats your boat...

[TahitiNut]

13. Who's comparing? After all, everyone knows tobacco smoke is more toxic than Zyklon B

It's historical fact that the Nazis would've used ETS except they didn't want to be exposed to it themselves. :shrug:

[Bake]

14. Geez, this thread is makin' me jones for a cigg ...

Now you've gone and done it!

:rofl:

Bake

[TahitiNut]

15. Just take a sip of tap water. It'll be OK.

:dunce:

[KoKo]

16. Are you making "fun" of our fears?

:shrug:

[KoKo]

17. DONTCHA KNOW? It's COOL to appear on C-Span Think Tank Panel

and Pull out your Bottle of Water to appear so "IN."

What I wonder when I see those folks with their "water bottles" is how COOL ARE YOU that you CAN AFFORD THIS...while most of the WORLD lives in THIRST...looking for the last DROP.

So...COOL AMERICANS of ALL Political Stripes have to HAVE that BOTTLE when they APPEAR ON TEE VEE! It's like a CULT!

:sarcasm: about these folks. What a bunch of Hullabaloo!

[TahitiNut]

19. Do you know how many carcinogens and mutagens are in the plastic in those bottles?

They leach into the water and sap our vital juices ... like ETS. :evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

18. I think we should tax all foreigners living overseas

They've had it too easy for decades.

[TahitiNut]

20. Yep. Let's tax anyone who can't vote.

... and then the ones who DON'T vote. When we're done, it won't make any difference WHO or WHAT we vote for or against.

:shrug: Yep ... that's the kind of "liberal" to warm the heart of any "conservative." We'll be "unified."

:rofl: