{"id":483,"date":"2014-04-21T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=483"},"modified":"2014-04-21T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T21:55:30","slug":"is-portlands-weirdeness-due-to-lack-of-pee-in-their-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/is-portlands-weirdeness-due-to-lack-of-pee-in-their-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Portland&#8217;s Weirdeness due to lack of Pee in their drinking water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/is-portlands-weirdeness-due-to-lack-of-pee-in-their-drinking-water\/\" data-text=\"Is Portland&#038;%238217;s Weirdeness due to lack of Pee in their drinking water%3f\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll probably never know, since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/04\/21\/portland-flushing-38-million-gallons-of-water-from-reservoir-because-teenager-urinated-in-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">City has decided to drain a 38,000,000 gallon reservoir <\/a>because someone peed in it. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=306\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve already explored how much pee it would take in your pool to make it dangerous<\/a>. \u00a0Now, due to the events in Portland\u00a0we get to explore how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2014\/04\/17\/urine_in_portland_reservoir_how_dangerous_is_pee_in_drinking_water.html\" target=\"_blank\">much pee might be acceptable in your drinking water<\/a>. \u00a0Turns out, it&#8217;s a lot. \u00a0Which isn&#8217;t that surprising \u00a0since it is not uncommon for people to survive when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drinking_urine\" target=\"_blank\">drinking their own urine<\/a> (!). \u00a0It is 95% water after all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_484\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?attachment_id=484\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-484\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-484\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portland-weird-beer-dog-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Seems normal...\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portland-weird-beer-dog-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portland-weird-beer-dog-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portland-weird-beer-dog.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seems normal&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So if a teenager pees into a 38,000,000 gallon reservoir, Portland City officials think it needs to be drained. \u00a0Granted they have a lot more water up north than we do in California, but that still seems like a waste. \u00a0Especially since no one keeps track of all the bird and animal feces, dead animals, etc that undoubtedly find their way into an open air reservoir. \u00a0\u00a0 Anyway&#8230; odd for a town that hosts an annual event on World Naked Bikeride Day. \u00a0Those riders might get thirsty! \u00a0Now you know what they mean by &#8220;Keep Portland Weird&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet We&#8217;ll probably never know, since the City has decided to drain a 38,000,000 gallon reservoir because someone peed in it. \u00a0We&#8217;ve already explored how much pee it would take in your pool to make it dangerous. \u00a0Now, due to the events in Portland\u00a0we get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}