[LINK] The true cost of bottled water

[Danny Yee]

Stewart Fist wrote:
> When the boil-the-water scare was running hot in Sydney a few years ago, the
> authorities still maintained the fiction that the risk was low.  But I knew
> of two people who had serious problems with the runs at that time, so
> extrapolating from that, one could assume that 100,000 or more must have got
> infected with either Cryptosporidium or Guardia.
 
The figures I saw were that there were zero reported cases of either
cryptosporidium or giardia, but a massive increase in burns injuries.

I suspect that they stopped reporting low level problems with water
quality after that.

Danny.
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