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There’s Fecal Matter in Our Drinking Water — Here's What Scientists Are Doing About It
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| Stacey Leasca
Posted on 05/09/2025 2:04:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: webheart
They lie.
The article is incorrect. The scientists have been testing for human DNA in bodies of water for a long time. I live near a stream. They tested for human fecal DNA from septics.
Since every deer and coyote pack and skunk in the world uses the stream...they have had to differentiate for a long time
None btw.
To: webheart
Of course, but people can go overboard with it, as well.
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posted on
05/09/2025 3:17:27 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
We get our water from area lakes; of course there’s going to be fecal matter in it, but shouldn’t the water treatments clean it up? One of the few good things about Rockford IL, where I grew up, is that our water came from artesian wells.
To: nickcarraway
Throw in one of those dryer sheets once a month.
No problem.
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posted on
05/09/2025 3:32:53 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
(Keep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
To: MotorCityBuck
The concentration of “fecal matter” is important. Every time you breath in, you get at least 1 molecule of the air that was exhaled by Julius Ceasar on as he lay dying in the Roman Forum.
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posted on
05/09/2025 3:39:13 PM PDT
by
brookwood
(51 Intelligence Agents Say Global Warming Is An Existential Crisis)
To: brookwood
Not Julius Ceasar!
:)
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posted on
05/09/2025 3:40:48 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
(Keep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
To: Georgia Girl 2
Our well pulls from our water table at 75 feet. Had the water tested when I first moved here, and aside from a low level of particulate matter, it is cold, clear and delicious. We’re not too far from Lake Pendoreille, Priest River and the Hoodoo range that feeds our aquifer.
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posted on
05/09/2025 4:04:03 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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posted on
05/09/2025 4:27:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: nickcarraway
But here’s a little other fun fact for you: Fecal contamination doesn’t just happen in our waterways. As the Washington Post explained in 2023, there’s fecal contamination on essentially everything.
Exactly correct. The dose makes the poison. Every human contains thousands of water molecules which have been in other humans and other animals. Water is constantly recycled.
It is silly to become agitated at extremely low levels of “contamination”. It cannot be avoided.
To: packrat35
Yet, I am 63 and going... My great-grandfather smoked three packs a day.
Lived to be 22 years old.
Regards,
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:05:09 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: P8riot
Not unless someone’s taking a dump in my well. But since it’s a few hundred feet deep I think I’ll sleep tonight. Same here.
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posted on
05/10/2025 8:14:23 AM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesu)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/10/2025 10:37:29 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
To: kaktuskid
That’s why I only drink liquor.😏
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posted on
05/13/2025 5:32:40 PM PDT
by
BiteYourSelf
( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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