WHILE WE'VE BEEN READING HARRY POTTER
The City Planners of San Diego have quietly gone nuts.
(Thanks to M.C.)
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oh H*ck,
on top of everything else...Perfect!!
Posted by: Cynthia | July 16, 2005 at 07:50 PM
Ummm...maybe it's time I move. Yuck.
Posted by: Kara | July 16, 2005 at 07:56 PM
I'm guessing their public works department hasn't read "Harry Potter and the Cesspool of Death."
Posted by: bbescuela | July 16, 2005 at 08:02 PM
Glad I live in L.A.!
Posted by: alanboss | July 16, 2005 at 08:02 PM
Well it will be good business for the bottle water companies.
Posted by: opiesgirl | July 16, 2005 at 08:07 PM
alanboss, wouldn't that be considered an improvement in L.A.?
Posted by: bbescuela | July 16, 2005 at 08:10 PM
So ... since they'll be "saving" so much water, will this go directly to a high-flow toilet system?
Or will San Diegans have the added insult of low-flow, non-potable drinking water in their homes ... ???
... just askin' ...
Posted by: U.O | July 16, 2005 at 08:37 PM
can't add anything to these lyrics...
Tom Lehrer Pollution lyrics
Time was when an American about to go abroad would be warned by his friends or the guidebooks not to drink the water. But times have changed and now a foreigner coming to this country might be offered the following advice.
If you visit American city,
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air.
Pollution, pollution,
They got smog and sewage and mud.
Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud.
See the halibuts and the sturgeons
Being wiped out by detergents.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
But they don't last long if they try.
Pollution, pollution,
You can use the latest toothpaste,
And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.
Just go out for a breath of air,
And you'll be ready for Medicare.
The city streets are really quite a thrill.
If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.
Pollution, pollution,
Wear a gas mask and a veil.
Then you can breathe, long as you don't inhale.
Lots of things there that you can drink,
But stay away from the kitchen sink.
The breakfast garbage that you throw in to the Bay,
They drink at lunch in San Jose.
So go to the city, see the crazy people there.
Like lambs to the slaughter,
They're drinking the water
And breathing the air.
Posted by: insomniac | July 16, 2005 at 09:18 PM
This should do wonders for the San Diego convention trade.
Posted by: Calendar Hacksaw | July 16, 2005 at 09:19 PM
One word.
SICK!
Posted by: Psycho Joe | July 16, 2005 at 11:01 PM
I think I'll stay on the east coast where the earth stays put and the only thing I'll be sharing with my neighbors is a cup of sugar.
Posted by: Punkin Poo | July 17, 2005 at 02:35 AM
BLEEEEAH. glad i live on the east coast, where only the air is polluted. thanks insomniac for the tom lehrer tune. great song.
Posted by: queensbee | July 17, 2005 at 03:01 AM
icky.
Posted by: Bumble | July 17, 2005 at 04:29 AM
Oh, I see. The waste water will be highly treated before it gets mixed into the drinking water.
Is this still the same crack (har!) sanitation team that routinely has to close down beaches cause their plants were leaking raw sewage into the ocean? That was pretty frequent when I lived there (admittedly, that was 20 yrs ago).
Posted by: qetzal | July 17, 2005 at 04:55 AM
qetzal:
You are exactly right; it's the very same "crack" team. This has been an ongoing "movement" for several years here, but the citizens keep "flushing" the idea out of the local discourse!
Posted by: San Diego girl | July 17, 2005 at 05:04 AM
so after a strenuous game of urinal soccer, the dehydrated players get to have a nice cool glass of refreshing waste water so that they can play again?! ewwwwwwwwwwwww. i'm relieved to know this is the only plan of its kind in the works.
Posted by: crossgirl | July 17, 2005 at 05:10 AM
Oh, great; I'd have to compete with my dog to get a drink of water.
Hmmm, this might be a huge business opportunity: Street vendors selling bottled water in San Diego... 'scuse me, I've gotta go get a small business loan.
Posted by: Lairbo | July 17, 2005 at 06:13 AM
Ah, well, S.D. girl, maybe the sewage thing is just the cosmically required bit of yang in San Diego's yin.
(Eww! My water has too much yang in it.)
Posted by: qetzal | July 17, 2005 at 07:30 AM
Big deal. Haven't dogs been doing this for years? They seem to be healthy enough.
(Of course, I live in New York, but no matter.)
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 17, 2005 at 07:34 AM
Trust me, this will improve the taste of the water!
Posted by: Lynn | July 17, 2005 at 07:41 AM
like to see `em pull this stunt in sacramento.
to the capitalist water entrepreneurs - we already spend a small fortune on bottled water.
we even make coffee with it.
what we're really gonna need is a big delivery truck to fill the 80,000 gallon bath water holding tank that we just started building in the back yard.
Posted by: just sayin' | July 17, 2005 at 08:15 AM
Trust me, this will improve the taste of the water!
Posted by: Lynn | July 17, 2005 at 08:30 AM
Dang. When I saw the headline, I thought it would be a new dance program.
Posted by: reneviht | July 17, 2005 at 09:36 AM
The whole country could send its waiste to California, they could consume it and feed it back to us in the form of bad movies and music. Full circle kind of thing.
Posted by: DLAK | July 17, 2005 at 09:56 AM
Sending our waists to California could be a good weight-loss plan! You should copyright it before someone else does.
Posted by: reneviht | July 17, 2005 at 10:01 AM
*snork*
think it was refering to the waste that is its blog.
Posted by: sheesh | July 17, 2005 at 10:11 AM
referring
(quelle surprise)
Posted by: sheesh | July 17, 2005 at 10:15 AM
Of course we make our coffee with bottled water - duh!
Doesn't everyone?
j.s. - showering could now become a problem - maybe best not to - one could just have a sponge bath with leftover coffee!!
Posted by: San Diego girl | July 17, 2005 at 11:03 AM
I knew there was a good reason I left San Diego (and California) eleven years ago; now I know what it is. As a point of reference, I don't let my dog drink out of the toilet.
Posted by: Monsoon | July 17, 2005 at 11:12 AM
ppfftt...
make mine cappuccino please.
Posted by: grumpy sandifrikkinego girl | July 17, 2005 at 11:16 AM
In the town where I was born
Lived a sanitary engineer
And he told us of his plans
For recycling our old beer
So we spent 200 mil
For his plant to clean our waste
Though it's not so bad to smell
We've all lost our sense of taste!
What we drink was yellow, now it's clean!
Yellow, now it's clean,
Yellow now it's clean. (repeat)
What we've passed just goes on through
There some resemblance to Mountain Dew
Other cities will turn green
At San Diego's Club - Urine
(chorus)
As we get each new disease
The body politic has no kidneys
Turn on the sprinklers and kill the trees
(Just thank God,it's too warm to freeze!)
(chorus)
Posted by: insomniac | July 17, 2005 at 11:50 AM
Hate to break it to you, but this essentially what happens in every community. Treated sewage outlets into lake or river, water treatment takes in water from same lake or river. All sanitary treatment plants outlet water that is just as clean as what the water treatment plants produce.
Posted by: Trillian | July 17, 2005 at 01:35 PM
Thank you insom -
I feel much better about the whole situation now...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
Cuz it took so long to make it
And I'll never find the recipe again....
Posted by: San Diego girl | July 17, 2005 at 01:36 PM
Riding Insom's coat-tails on the Tom Lehrer song, I now give your George Carlin's rendition of America the Beautiful:
Oh beautiful, for smoggy skies, insecticided grain
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea!
Posted by: Aunt Nancy | July 17, 2005 at 03:56 PM
Thanks Trillian. I'm glad someone here is paying attention.
The rest of you folks -- How long have you been on this planet? All water is recycled. What part of "all" don't you understand?
Posted by: 666 | July 17, 2005 at 07:45 PM
But I thought every drop of water I drank was painstakingly created in a very clean lab by chemists using fresh oxygen and hydrogen! Stop taking away the comfortable illusions! :-)
Posted by: Bumble | July 17, 2005 at 08:05 PM
i know my bottled "spring water" better have been involved with a brook at some point.
Posted by: still dizguzted | July 17, 2005 at 09:47 PM
Having both lived in Sandy Eggo (for about 10 years) and visited the sewage treatment plant upon which this proposal is based, I think I can safely say that the highly treated water which the plant produces is FAR safer and cleaner than what's coming out of the taps now...
Posted by: RealMcCoy | July 17, 2005 at 11:22 PM
As a San Diego resident, I find the notion that the fine folks in charge of our municipal apparatus went quietly nuts while everybody was reading H.P. nonsensical...they've been certifiable for years, and not any too quiet about it, either. Half our city council is currently on trial, accused of taking bribes - well, not quite half, as one of the accused died before the trial started. Our mayor, who announced he wouldn't run for re-election last year, then changed his mind, got beat by a write-in candidate, which put his nose out of join, so he fought vigorously in court to have her win disallowed, and having snatched back his throne, said, ah, hell, this job is too hard, and resigned. His last day was Friday, and the acting mayor is now one of the council members who is currently awaiting the jury's verdict.
One of our local congressmen just announced he won't run for re-election, cause the recent FBI raid on his home pursuant to the investigation of corruption on his part kinda sucked the wind out of his political career. And nobody drinks the water out here; it already tastes crappy.
To make a too-long post longer, I wouldn't rely overmuch on the healthful effects of the mountain stream from whence comes your bottled water. I'm a city slicker now, but I grew up in a rural area. Critters crap in mountain streams, which is why there are period outbreaks of giardiasis in inadequately treated municipal water supplies in rural areas.
Posted by: Maud | July 17, 2005 at 11:34 PM
joinT - put his nose out of joint...you know, that place some of the local pols are headed for.
Posted by: Maud | July 17, 2005 at 11:43 PM
!?!CRITTERS CRAP IN CREEKS!?!
Posted by: ewwwww | July 18, 2005 at 01:45 AM
Harry Potter Shocker!
In the latest in J.K. Rowlings series of books, she kills off.....THE AUTHOR! That's right! Everything after page 327 is blank!
BWAHA HA HA HA!
Posted by: Mike | July 18, 2005 at 07:20 AM
wrong thread mcmike!
*pulls cord to trapdoor*
Posted by: just sayin' | July 18, 2005 at 11:51 AM