Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxm!cwa From: cwa@ihuxm.UUCP (Carl W. Amport) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Clean water . . . Anywhere? Message-ID: <885@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 10:07:09 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxm.885 Posted: Tue Feb 21 10:07:09 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 02:04:20 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 28 You should not drink untreated water - even from God's heaven on earth. Ever hear of PCBs, mercury, or chemical fertilizer. What about that elk carcass rotting upstream and filling the "clean" water with bacteria? And what about that logging operation up river? Hardness or softness of water does not necessarily mean it is clean or safe. Well water is generally hard and should be softened for use in appliances. Softened water should not be drank. Lake Michigan is regarded as a good source of water. I know that in Mil- waukee the intake is about six miles offshore at the bottom of the lake and you know they don't pump it right out of the lake and into your sink. Soon the suburbs of Chicago (1990's) will have city water from the big pond - not only better quality than most well water from farm country, but a potentially endless supply if utilized wisely. (also more expensive!) Many other states that claim to be member's of God's heaven on earth want to build pipelines to pump Great Lake water out west. Shortages in God's country? I would not swim in the Fox or Dupage river. I have swam in Lake Michigan, but not off Chicago's beaches. You criticize Illinois but yet you left God's country to live here. Don't feel guilty - I feel pretty much the same. Don't you know that the `only' good thing about Illinois is that it is next to Wisconsin? Carl W. Amport Naperville, IL.