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Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All
Ars Technica has nothing good to say about the scientific understanding (or at least public understanding) that led Portland to drain 38 million gallons of water after a teenage prankster urinated into the city's water supply. Maybe SCADA systems shouldn't be quite as high on the list of dangers, when major utilities can be quite this brittle even without a high-skill attack.
literally.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Urine gets stronger the more you dilute it.
The uncomfortable truth is that all the water has pee in it.
David Shaff obviously has a thing for watersports. It takes a Republican level of personal denial to drain 38 million gallons just to avoid drinking a little bit of pee.
Budweiser sent trucks to take some of the piss water away to make American style beer
Oh, come on. Noone uses esoteric units of measurements like "liters"
Do you realize that in addition to urinating in water, why, there are studies underway to urinate in salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
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I live in Portland. They'd probably allow it if he was a free-range drunkard with organic piss.
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Don't tell the homoeopaths.
Better nuke the reservoir form orbit, the only way to be sure.
And they say American beer tastes like...
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I damn sure don't want any piss in my facets. That's even worse than piss coming through my faucets.