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Oh Adelaide! (i.imgur.com)

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[–]slurpme 24 points25 points ago

I've seen these signs elsewhere... When the Orion shopping center opened at Springfield Lakes, QLD a few years back the toilets had signs on them "Non potable water, do not drink"... I'm glad I saw it because I was pretty close to having a quick sip after having a shit...

[–]redlust85[S] 3 points4 points ago

Mmm toilet water

[–]dexter311München! 71 points72 points ago

Oh Adelaide what? Any place with non-potable water in the public needs to be signposted. Anything to hang shit on Adelaide, I suppose.

Hell, the Eastern states sucking the Murray/Darling dry are a large reason why water needs to be recycled in Adelaide anyway.

[–]SteelOverseer 10 points11 points ago

The point is it's using it for TOILET FLUSHING. While that might be the law, you'd think it's common sense not to drink water used for flushing toilets.

[–]Fartmatic 9 points10 points ago

Of course, drink BRAWNDO THE THIRST MUTILATOR

[–]BeefPieSoup 4 points5 points ago

It's not like Adelaide is the only place where such signs have ever been deemed necessary. There are probably a few "oh, Adelaide" things, but I don't see why this is really one of them.

[–]KiloNiggaWattActually Ghandi 10 points11 points ago

I've filled up a drink bottle from a toilet tank before when the sink was broken. Normally the water in a toilet tank is as clean as the water that comes out of any other tap because it's the same water, so you wouldn't think twice about it.

I'm sure some there'd be someone out there that uses the water out of toilet cisterns regularly for doing their hair or cleaning themselves or something. Maybe someone with a catheter gets water from there so they can do it entirely privately? I don't know.

It doesn't matter what the water is 'supposed' to be used for. If there's non potable water it needs to be signed.

[–]Aussiemoo 2 points3 points ago

The sheer proximity of a large volume of tepid water to a place where all of your shitting occurs would make it something to think twice about.

[–]KiloNiggaWattActually Ghandi 4 points5 points ago

Tepid water? It's chlorinated, filtered, covered and every time you flush the toilet fresh water replaces it. If you're concerned about the temperature just flush the toilet and you're good to go. It's better water than you'd buy in a bottle. Remember, those bottles of water sit around for months at a time, and aren't refrigerated to be transported. If you're not concerned about drinking bottled water you've got no reason to be concerned about the water in a cistern.

This is as childish as people not wanting to drink fluorinated water, or purified recycled water (which is far cleaner than anything you'll get from anywhere else short of a desalination plant).

[–]Aussiemoo 5 points6 points ago

perhaps you live in a newer house, but the toilet cisterns for houses I've lived in were disgusting and in no way drinkable. If i put a bucket of water under my sink for 6 months, it doesn't matter how clean it was when I put it there, I'm not going to drink it later on.

[–]genwhy 5 points6 points ago

That scum that accumulates around the insides of your cistern is exactly the same as the scum that accumulates inside your hot water service, the pipes leading to your kitchen sink, etc. Anyone who's ever changed a tap washer or unscrewed the aerator on the spout of a kitchen sink knows this.

Of course, if you don't disturb the scum that lines your plumbing then it usually doesn't come off into the water you drink when you turn on the tap. You wouldn't scrape the sides of your toilet tank if you wanted drinking water, for example.

It's worth noting though, that most toilet flush valves don't drain the tank completely, they usually leave about 2 cm of water behind in the tank to provide a bit of pressure to help plug the outlet valve.

[–]KiloNiggaWattActually Ghandi 0 points1 point ago

The water doesn't sit there for six months in any occupied house. At worst it'll sit there for 24 hours. You're just being silly.

[–]Aussiemoo 3 points4 points ago

You're right Kiloniggawatt, I am being silly.

[–]FurriesRuinEverythin 1 point2 points ago

Never mind the fact that most commercial places like this have systems that inject cleaning chemicals into the water in the cistern.

[–]istaraSydney 2 points3 points ago

In the UK nearly all the water is recycled, and in the vast majority of houses the same, potable, recycled water goes in both taps and toilets.

Some newer green houses use a dual-water system, where "grey" water (from washing machines etc) is used for flushing the lavatory, rather than the potable recycled water from the mains.

At the Olympic Village in Sydney they built a dual water system: fresh for taps and recycled for toilets. Both are actually potable, but people here are deemed too squeamish to drink recycled.

The fact is that recycled is often safer than "fresh" because it has to go through such a high level of treatment, and gets carefully tested.

[–]Aussiemoo -1 points0 points ago

I want to know who sued the airport after getting sick from drinking toilet water.

[–]flashmanwe'll all be rooned -1 points0 points ago

Adelaide, you're so fucking downstream.

[–]zsaleeba 10 points11 points ago

But all the water in Adelaide tastes like recycled toilet water to me!

[–]MolesteringTriangle 8 points9 points ago

Well maybe you should stop drinking recycled toilet water then.

[–]KillerWatt 3 points4 points ago

We have these signs at work, except it says acid and we should not drink the acid

[–]Vexercist 4 points5 points ago

Why do your toilets contain acid?

[–]KiloNiggaWattActually Ghandi 0 points1 point ago

Too much pineapple juice.

[–]glengyronBehead All Those Who Insult Gina 0 points1 point ago

Ah, Adelaide Airport.

They've got a new multistory carpark did you know?

[–]Denial23 1 point2 points ago

Adelaide airport is actually one of the nicer and efficient airports in the country. It may be smaller, but I'd rather fly in to ADL than most other places.

[–]SilencerLXOccupy my PANTS. 1 point2 points ago

I was just at Adelaide domestic, totally missed this one.

[–]redlust85[S] 0 points1 point ago

Its in the ladies :)

[–]L2_Confu -2 points-1 points ago

I say remove all these warning signs (same goes for poison on bottles). If people are dumb enough to do these things, we can Darwin Awards them out.

[–]Old_Gregggyour english gave me cancer 3 points4 points ago

We were all young, foolish, or uneducated once upon a time.

And some things will never be common knowledge for people visiting from abroad.

[–]Shaaaz3 -4 points-3 points ago

Because the drinking water in Adelaide isn't bad enough..

[–]FurriesRuinEverythin 7 points8 points ago

Tap water in Adelaide tastes fine. It's about 900x better than the tap water where I live.

[–]redlust85[S] 0 points1 point ago

Where do you live?

[–]thetwobecomeoneStuck in the Deep North 0 points1 point ago

Adelaide tap water is hideous. London tap water is better and that's saying something.

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