How we coped when water turned muddy

With the boil-water advisory still in effect in Vancouver, Burnaby and the North Shore, stores are being stormed by people looking for water treatment systems. But consumers need to look around to determine what's best for their health and their pocketbook.

The cheapest solution is boiling water, and that means a rolling boil for at least one minute, Vancouver Coastal Health's manager of health protection, Richard Taki, said in an interview.

But boiled water tastes pretty flat so Taki suggests letting it cool and then transferring the water back and forth between containers to give it some flavour.

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Reclaimed water usage is a bad idea

Do not drink from the toilet to the tap, citizens of West Palm Beach.

One decade has passed by with no improvements in the quality of recycled sewage water called reuse.

The Palm Beach County Department of Health made Boca Raton put up 50 signs at Mizner Park. There is one left today and it is unreadable. Signs were at all entrances at Mizner Park, and most signs throughout the city are in complete disarray. But now the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is going to let the city of West Palm Beach use recycled sewage water (reuse) for indirect potable reuse; in other words, FDEP is going to let people drink the water, bathe in it, shower, wash hands and face in this water. This will be a first for the state of Florida, and you can imagine FDEP protecting the public health from this indirect potable reuse when they can't control signs.

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