It’s official, I can screw up boiling water.
Folks, send water fast or I will die from dehydration! The water in lower mainland Vancouver has a high level of “turpidity”. In my limited vocabulary, that basically means that there are turds floating in the water *. The recommended approach by the water people is to boil water for 1 minute to remove said “turps”.
So I got my trusty pot, filled 3/4 full of brown crap water and brought to a rolling boil. Set my trusty egg timer for 1 minute and waited. Once the egg timer beeped, I stopped the stove and looked into the water. Still brown!
Is this normal? Isn’t the water supposed to turn all sparkly and drinkable after the boiling? Where is my glacier fresh water filtered by the rockies and brought down from the heavens by cherubs of angels?
* Turpidity is apparently the cloudiness in the water that indicates the amount of organisms in it. Eww, gross!
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You have convinced me to drink bottled/filtered water only. That is so gross. On a brighter note at least from color you know your water is bad. Many places have clear water thats extremely toxic.
Oh gross. If I was you, I would’ve ran it through the Brita after boiling. Good thing the boiled water advisory got lifted.
OMG! Really? I just wrestled an elderly lady for her 5 gallon jug of water at Costco! There is a certain irony to learning about BC related news from someone in Calgary over the internet. Don’t cha think?
Er… I thought it was. I just read CBC.ca and I guess you guys are on Day 5. :s
You didn’t get the memo, Alberta is the new “centre of the universe.”
I seem to be getting by with using bottled water but brown baths just aren’t the same
I’m guessing you’re telling me that I fled Vancouver “Just in the nick of time”, eh?