The Trinity River, the nasty 'ol Trinity River that runs through Dallas, the river that has signs posted along it's banks telling us to not eat any fish we catch there, is Houston's drinking water. Dallas processes 135-145 million gallons of raw sewage every day, separates....well....you know, and sends it on downstream via the Trinity, ultimately to Lake Livingston. From there Houston puts their Good Housekeeping Seal on it and pumps it right to their residents. While this is probably pretty normal in the water biz, it just sounds so....Ewwwwww!
But then Houston is used to it. You know how the beer brewers always brag in their commercials about their "perfect water", the ingredient that makes their beer the best in the world, blah blah blah? Last time I looked there was a Budweiser brewery in Houston. Right on the Houston ship channel. So am I to infer the water for Budweiser's Houston brewery comes from....Ewwwwww!
All this reminds me of the time years ago listening to the radio as they reported a massive recall of Payday candy bars. It seems the department that oversees health at food processing plants (FDA?) found an unacceptably high level of "rodent droppings" in the finished product. A certain amount of rat poop is within tolerance it explained, but this batch was waaaaay off the chart. At the moment I heard that report I was eating a Payday candy bar....Ewwwwww!
Some things you just don't want to know. Who's with me? I wonder if this is where the old saying "Ignorance is bliss" came from?
Now forget about everything I just wrote and go have a nice weekend. :)
S
