Would You Drink This Water?

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Posted by michael on Friday October 22, 2004 @03:31AM from the tastes-like-chicken dept.

theodp writes "NEWater looks like any other glacier-clear bottled H20. Except, reports Salon, it gushes from the toilets of Singapore instead of a bubbling spring. NEWater is the product of Singapore's new water-treatment system, and it's wastewater that's been purified through advanced synthetic membranes called ZeeWeed, which could help 20% of the world's population that doesn't have easy access to clean water."

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Let's get pissed!! by MarsBar · 2004-10-22 03:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Hmm. Brit joke only, methinks.
Whooaa by savagedome · 2004-10-22 03:33 · Score: 4, Funny

it gushes from the toilets of Singapore instead of a bubbling spring

That is DISGUSTING. I don't think I will be drinking any water today. And thanks for adding 'gushing'.

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1. Re:Whooaa by daniil · 2004-10-22 03:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Perhaps i should remind you that the milk you're drinking right now gushed out of a cow.
  
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2. Re:Whooaa by aonifer · 2004-10-22 03:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Not mine. I burn hydrogen to get my water. No one's messing with my precious bodily fluids.
3. Re:Whooaa by dagur · 2004-10-22 06:53 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Wohoo! That means we actually drink some of jesus in the church wine!
Re:Holy reusable resources batman! by The+Desert+Palooka · 2004-10-22 03:35 · Score: 4, Funny

I'd drink the water.

Ewwww, it seems you're already on Zee Weed.
I don't drink water... by Suhas · 2004-10-22 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny

....fish fuck in it
1. Re:I don't drink water... by forgetmenot · 2004-10-22 03:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  They don't even do that... the female deposits her eggs and the male... nevermind.
Re:Holy reusable resources batman! by nocomment · 2004-10-22 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny

I dunno, just the thought of where it came from. The name is appropriate because I would have to be "zmoking ze weed" to drink that.

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Caught the typo by ImTwoSlick · 2004-10-22 03:37 · Score: 4, Funny

advanced synthetic membranes called ZeeWeed
That's spelled WeeWeed.
That tears it! by Thud457 · 2004-10-22 03:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Nothing but pure grain alcohol for me from now on!

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Wait Wait! by nounderscores · 2004-10-22 03:58 · Score: 4, Funny

ZeeWeed is people! Tell everyone!
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Re:Is it toilet water or is it... by DeputySpade · 2004-10-22 05:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually, in French "toilette" has always meant the same thing; it's English where the word toilet shift meaning to refer to a specific bathroom fixture instead of the original meaning it had when we stole it from the French language.

We didn't steal it. They surrendered it to us.

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