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Ohio's 4th largest city has no drinking water

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"TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Long lines formed at water distribution centers and store shelves were quickly emptied of bottled water after Ohio's fourth-largest city told residents not to drink from its water supply that was fouled by toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie.

The warning effectively cut off the water supply to 400,000 people in Toledo, most of its suburbs and a few areas in southeastern Michigan.

Worried residents told not to drink, brush their teeth or wash dishes with the water emptied store shelves and waited hours for deliveries of bottled water from across Ohio as the governor declared a state of emergency".
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This is causing other Great Lake states to start retesting their water.
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"TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Long lines formed at water distribution centers and store shelves were quickly emptied of bottled water after Ohio's fourth-largest city told residents not to drink from its water supply that was fouled by toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie.

The warning effectively cut off the water supply to 400,000 people in Toledo, most of its suburbs and a few areas in southeastern Michigan.

Worried residents told not to drink, brush their teeth or wash dishes with the water emptied store shelves and waited hours for deliveries of bottled water from across Ohio as the governor declared a state of emergency".
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This is causing other Great Lake states to start retesting their water.
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That sounds rather dramatic. It will be interesting to follow how the problem can be solved. Showering from a bottle of Perrier might sound cool. But long term that won't cut it.
 
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"TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Long lines formed at water distribution centers and store shelves were quickly emptied of bottled water after Ohio's fourth-largest city told residents not to drink from its water supply that was fouled by toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie.

The warning effectively cut off the water supply to 400,000 people in Toledo, most of its suburbs and a few areas in southeastern Michigan.

Worried residents told not to drink, brush their teeth or wash dishes with the water emptied store shelves and waited hours for deliveries of bottled water from across Ohio as the governor declared a state of emergency".
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This is causing other Great Lake states to start retesting their water.
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Mornin' Paxaeon.
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Yep Chicago Announced they would be testing Lake Michigan. Which the day before Mark Kirk was blaming Milwaukee Wisconsin for Polluting Lake Michigan. So naturally he put together a bill and wants whoever gets caught to pay 100k fine everyday until the problem is cleaned up, or taken care of.
 
Many cities sewage treatment plants empty wastes through pipes extending a mile or more out into the Great Lakes. You know that at some point that this ignorant policy is going to bite back. Maybe that day has arrived. Add a little Global Waming to raise Lake water temperatures and you have a recipe for disaster.
 
In Erie's case, it was an algae bloom. Algae produces toxins. We've had multiple blooms here in some Texas lakes that have made then useless for recreational purposes.

I have to wonder if this is not somewhat responsible?

Incredible: Lake Superior's Temp. Dropped Down to 38 Degrees This Week

Incredible: Lake Superior's Temp. Dropped Down to 38 Degrees This Week
 
Many cities sewage treatment plants empty wastes through pipes extending a mile or more out into the Great Lakes. You know that at some point that this ignorant policy is going to bite back. Maybe that day has arrived. Add a little Global Waming to raise Lake water temperatures and you have a recipe for disaster.

Is it treated sewer water?
 
Is it treated sewer water?

The treated water isn't the big problem. The big problem are the 70,000 farmers along the shores of Lake Erie. Farm runoff is the primary source of the phosphates that the algae thrives on. A very wet spring and summer with lots of heavy rain and lots of runoff pretty much guaranteed a big algae bloom this year. 2011 was bad, too, because it was a very wet spring/summer. Farming pratices are going to change or Lake Erie is going to be in big trouble.
 
Is it treated sewer water?

I think it usually is, but can vary with weather and heavy rainfall. I know that one mile out from Rochester, NY and also out from Miami, it is known as the Rose Bowl.
 
No drinking water?

Just another one of the many benefits the "free market" provides. I'm sure that private businesses will provide a solution.
 
No drinking water?

Just another one of the many benefits the "free market" provides. I'm sure that private businesses will provide a solution.

The free market has no bearing on this. New farming practices do.
 
I forgot that what farming businesses do has nothing to do with the market.

My bad

Asserting that any human activity that has something to do with "the market" is a "free market" problem is absurd. Fertilizing fields is an agricultural thing, not a "free market" thing. Russians fertilize their fields, too.
 
No drinking water?

Just another one of the many benefits the "free market" provides. I'm sure that private businesses will provide a solution.

I am sure the people are enjoying their bottled water.
 
Asserting that any human activity that has something to do with "the market" is a "free market" problem is absurd. Fertilizing fields is an agricultural thing, not a "free market" thing. Russians fertilize their fields, too.

I forgot that no one engages in agriculture when there's a free market

Again, my bad
 
The warning effectively cut off the water supply to 400,000 people in Toledo, most of its suburbs and a few areas in southeastern Michigan.
Okay, that bolded part is just drama, please. Drinking, dish, and toothbrush water is a mere fraction of the uses for city water supplies. PULLEEEASE can we ever get to the point where we can discuss rationally present things or are we all just loving the drama too much.
 
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The ole' "Let them drink Perrier" solution!!

I'm pointing out your idiotic comment overlooks that the people of Toledo are currently living off of bottled water produced by the big evil private sector.
 
I'm pointing out your idiotic comment overlooks that the people of Toledo are currently living off of bottled water produced by the big evil private sector.

I'm sure they're thrilled to be paying for the privilige after having paid their taxes and water bills.
 
I forgot that no one engages in agriculture when there's a free market

Again, my bad

Whatever.... you went off the reservation with this line of absurdity.
 
For the second consecutive day, residents in an area of northwestern Ohio that included the state's fourth-largest city, Toledo, are being told that their tap water is not safe for cooking or drinking. The governor has declared a state of emergency and deployed the National Guard to help get water and food to the region. As of Sunday morning, there were no reports of anyone being sickened by tap water.

Toxins in the water have been linked to an algae bloom in Lake Erie, which is a primary source of drinking water for many Ohio communities. In recent decades, Lake Erie has seen large blooms of blue-green algae develop in its western basin. In 2011, the algae covered a record 1,930 square miles of Lake Erie – nearly 20 percent of the entire surface of the lake.

The blooms grow from an excess of phosphorus, which is a key ingredient in many fertilizers. Lake Erie is particularly prone to the blooms because rivers carry runoff from farmland into the shallow western basin of the lake.

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Behind Ohio drinking-water ban, a Lake Erie mystery - CSMonitor.com
 
Okay, that bolded part is just drama, please. Drinking, dish, and toothbrush water is a mere fraction of the uses for city water supplies. PULLEEEASE can we ever get to the point where we can discuss rationally present things or are we all just loving the drama too much.
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It was a direct quote from the news article I posted. Is there any evidence to suggest otherwise?
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Many cities sewage treatment plants empty wastes through pipes extending a mile or more out into the Great Lakes. You know that at some point that this ignorant policy is going to bite back. Maybe that day has arrived. Add a little Global Waming to raise Lake water temperatures and you have a recipe for disaster.
Record low temperatures & precipitation, sunshine, calm winds, then the other day a heavy T-storm washed a motherlode of fertilizer off the dry farmland. And it all ends up in lake Erie watershed.

A huge cyanobacteria laden algae bloom, colloquially known as "nasty green pond scum" has covered western lake Erie. Maumee bay in particular, where the Toledo municipal water supply comes from, has got the worst of the green scum invasion.

In another thread I mentioned that I drank almost three pitchers of iced tea that I made with tap water before I got the news that you were not supposed to drink the water. I have no idea how much of the toxin I ingested.
 
Who doesn't have water filters?
 
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