That it, nothing but beer from here on…

No =, I know why NYC votes the Democratic Socialist Line.

Lead shouldn’t be a problem, the entire federal complex in DC has had leaded water for decades and they’re just fine..

I always wondered why new yorkers kept electing liberals when liberals make their lives a living hell. Now I have the answer, LEAD POISONING! It is not their fault that they are brain damaged.

I wouldn’t trust the EPA to wash my dog much less tell me how much lead is in the pipes. They will do anything to push this White Houses’s agenda. More money on infastructure, more money for a slush fund, plain and simple more money period!!!

Just raise the rates Mike, that will fix everything. And no salt. And no trans fats or smoking. Lead is okay, right Mike?

How did lead get into our water system in the first place? Lead does not naturally occur in water. Even if we can’t do anything about it, as Natalie says, are we all just supposed to be okay with drinking poison? Why hasn’t any news source given us any real idea of HOW this might have happened? If these pipes have all had lead in them for 40 years, why is this all of a sudden a problem? Isn’t it more likely that lead entered our water supply through, oh i don’t know…fracking?!?

Explains all the mental illness in New York.

But . . . but . . . but . . . “New York has the best water in the world!”

I hope we’ve heard the last of that nonsense.

The Water Crisis, A Practical Solution

The Water crisis is the most serious problem humanity has ever faced. Water pollution has infused the entire food chain with neurotoxins, poisons and pharmaceuticals, all of which damage the health and survivability of man and planet. The cause is our modern, water based sewer system. We flush all of our disposables down the drain, into the sewer system where more chemicals are added and then finally pumped back into our water system. Water based sewer systems are the prime polluters and our use of them has proved to be full of unintended and unanticipated horrors. The use of water based sewer system wastes and contaminates the entire water supply with pollutants and nutrients that if captured and recycled, could provide sufficient agricultural nutrients to ensure a sustainable food supply.

One practical solution to the water shortage is to replace our centralized water based sewer system with on site, waterless toilets and recycle grey water. Grey water is the water from the kitchen and shower and can be recycled, on site and reused for landscaping. This will reduce our demand on the water source by 80 percent while simultaneously creating a sustainable, renewable, agricultural resource, namely, organic nitrogen.
No Mix toilets collect urine and feces in separate places, the toilet bowl has two drains, one, in the front for the urine and one in the back for the feces. The feces are dry composted and the urine is processed for agricultural purposes. Separating toilets protect the water supply and provide a renewable, safe, low cost source of nitrogen, enough to greatly reduce our dependence on foreign natural gas and oil. The important key is to separate the valuable, nitrogen rich urine, human urine is 18% organic nitrogen, at the source, before it is mixed with feces and before it is flushed into the water supply.

The economic potential of capturing human urine is stunning. Human urine is 18% organic nitrogen and has been used in agriculture for thousands of years. Sweden, Germany, Holland and many other countries have been using and processing human urine for agricultural purposes and to protect the environment from water based sewer systems. Human urine is the only renewable, sustainable and economically feasible source of nitrogen available to humanity and it is free.

What is the economic value of human urine? Here is how it works, the value of comparative petroleum derived fertilizer with the same 18% nitrogen content is approximately $10.00 a gallon and requires a massive polluting industry that is not renewable. The average person produces 2 liters of urine a day or roughly $5.00 worth of organic nitrogen. A city like Miami flushes down the drain 10 to 20 million dollars worth of nitrogen a day and spends another fortune to do it. Integrated Recycling is the future of our economy and could replace taxation in funding community services. The cities will become fertilizer factories and urban and suburban farming and food production could provide a sustainable, local food supply. Schools and churches could be nurseries and local gardening centers, hubs of city and urban agriculture and recycling. This could be a sustainable, local system that is a renewable doable foundation for local economies. Local food production is the basis of all economies and the missing component in modern cities.

This kind of integrated recycling is highly profitable and turns three life threatening problems, water shortage, water pollution and imported oil into one sustainable, environmentally positive and economically beneficial solution.
Water based sewer systems unnecessarily wastes and pollutes our most valuable resource, clean water. There is only one water supply for the entire earth. We share this single resource with 6.5 billion other humans and with all living organisms. Water should be regarded as our most important natural resource and shared birthright. Water is the first thing mankind must agree to share according to the highest collective principle. Water is the tie that binds us together, for better or for worse.
Water is the blood of the earth and a true sacrament, something we all share, something that is absolutely necessary for life. We should not pollute the water supply with chemicals, insecticides or human disposables that can and should be recycled to insure a healthy and sustainable future.

Modern, water based sewer systems could be the worst idea mankind has ever adopted. Common sense informs us not to defecate in the drinking water but that is exactly what we currently do in every city of the land. We do it without thinking. That is the problem. We are not thinking right. It is possible, conceivable, that the water crisis could be THE reason people begin to think of ourselves as truly united with everyone else on the planet, known and unknown, united in our fears, hopes and desires. 6.5 billion Separate destinies have become one destiny for us all …

trying to squeeze more money out of people as they reduce consumption because they have reduced/lost wages. Waste more water so the Water Company can take more advantage of the Govt Mandated Monopoly! Where I live, not NY, people have reduced consumption because they keep jacking up rates, then they come back the next year and raise rates because the business model is getting blown because people are reducing their consumption because of the increased rates! Niiiiice, huh?! Im thinking about redrilling my well and setting up rain barrels. F- the Govt Monopoly Greed Machine. Oh, think on this one for a minute, What is the largest most powerful Special Interest Lobby in the US today, THE GOVT! Not Oil, Not Insurance, Not Pahrma, Not the NRA or AARP, but DC itself is the most powerful and corrupt special interest in the history of humanity.

So there’s no way to filter the lead out of the water?

Lead is a heavy metal which is not metabolized by the body. It acculmulates and has been implicated lower test scores and reduced intellect. This news report may explain why NY continues to vote Democrats into office despite the fact that they have bankrupted the state.

This doesn’t even begin to get into other sources of lead other than building plumbing. All across the country we have disgusting tap water. How awful.

Between lead and all the other pollutants that expectant moms and young kids are exposed to in water and in the general food and drink supply, I’m sadly not surprised at the rise in autism (not to mention cancer).

All these kids weren’t being born with it 20 years ago, and don’t give me that “new kinds of diagnoses” business either. There is some kind of environmental factor causing this.

I hate to be rude, but that is the most sorry excuse for four ledes that attempt to get me to read a non-story.

Pb will do it everytime! now we know the root of your insanity!

Well, that explains it. Lead poisoning is known to call all sorts of mental problems; like generally going nuts. It’s long been theorized that the downfall of the Roman Empire had something to do with their lead lined water aqueducts.

No wonder, New Yorkers are a bit nuts.. especially the politicians.

According to the NYC water websiite, we get the best tap water in the world per studies. Now, I understand there could be an issue with old buildings that still use lead pipes however a city wide lead scare? Did someone dump lead into the water supplies? This is very odd indeed.

Must’ve been there a long time. Does much to explain voting patterns.

Now you know why the liberals running that city do what they do. They are crazy from the lead in the water just like the Roman emperors were. Losers.

This explains why there are so many Dumbocrats voting in NYC.

Well this explains everything

thankfully, I’m off water

Not surprised!. i don’t drink tap water at all

Isn’t it conicidental that this news is released right after the city replaced our water meters, which has resulted in an increase to our water bills of about 15%. So those og us who are trying to conserve to keep our costs down are now being told we have to ‘let it run’ to avoid becoming ill. This is just another scare tactic to squeeze more money from us.