But if one natters on about duct tape, spray paint, ethanol and trans fats, then you can ignor the $4.4 billion debt!
It's a shell game.
All politics is local.

Lead pipes? Just run the water for a few minutes before drinking. Really.

Lead pipes are pretty unheard of for supply lines in the PNW Jack. They are more common back east. Lead was used in waste pipes here, but not so much for supply lines as was the case back East.

And you knows well as anyone does that buying and drinking bottled water is a stupid, wasteful thing. Epecially in a city with water as good as we have here.

But I agree that Randy Leonard should have other matters on his plate to deal with instead of this.

The debate itself is a waste of energy.

Water purifiers, which are not disposable plastic bottles, remove lead.

We dont buy bottled water much, maybe on a road trip or something, but we do filter our tap water at home for drinking. It sure tastes a lot better.
The biggest problem I have with the local water is sediment plugging the kitchen faucet. I have to clean it out about once a month.

I haven't imbibed a single glass of tap water in my rental home since the day I moved in. After a long day of moving, I ran a bath in the white tub and when the tub was nearly full, the water was a deep rust color. I immediately called a bottled water distributor in Forest Grove and signed up for home delivery of 5-gallon bottles of water.

I try as often as possible to use a quart-sized Nalgene bottle from REI to carry water from the 5-gallon jug when I am away from home. In the interest of full disclosure, I do get lazy and buy bottled water from the store more often than I care to admit, both from a financial and environmental standpoint.

Typically around here lead would come from older copper piping joined with solder containing lead. Lead fee solder came around the late 70s or early 80s I think.

I get bottled water, my kids get to drink from the reservoir tank on the toilet.

We have a 1915 house. We installed a filter under our kitchen sink, with a separate drinking water dispenser. We change the filter about once every 9 to 12 months. It seems to do a good job filtering out any rust or other sediment that clogs the aerators in our other faucets in the house.

Personally, I like the convenience of bottles. They go where I go, are super cold from the fridge, no filter to worry about, no dishes, and no carrying around an empty bottle.

Bottled water comes from actual business who employ actual people. It doesn't surprise me that the CofP is trying to shut them down!

Randy the Nanny is at it again. He must read the NY Times every morning and then just blindly follow anything they tell him to do. Is there a word for that? Times-bot maybe?

"Water purifiers, which are not disposable plastic bottles, remove lead."

That's what I use!! :)

Better check. Some of them don't remove lead.

I drink only rainwater and pure grain alcohol in order to thwart the Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

For cryin' out loud.

Put a deposit on water bottles.

Take a nice visit to Palestine/Israel. Piles of old, flattened, broken plastic water bottles line the roadways as street litter.

Lead pipes are a thing of the past, but many, if not most home water systems include copper pipes connected by lead based solder. Running the water a bit before using it will prevent lead uptake. Also, do no use warm to hot water from the tap for drinking or cooking.

I was under the understanding that tap water in Portland was, in general, lower in contaminants, additives and minerals than most bottled waters.

Put a deposit on water bottles.

They did.

After a while, you want to do stuff like drink bottled water just to tell the busybodies where they can stick their commandments.

In the next two decades, METRO hopes to spend nearly 60% of all transportation funds on building out light rail. Most of the rest would be devoted to bike paths and pedestrian amenities.

And folks are getting exercised about bottled water?

Hey that's a well thought out program, bottled water. A study was just completed in Canada showing Tooth decay is up nation wide do to drinking bottled water with no fluoride. Sounds like dental special interest group at work here.

If Randy agrees to put flourine in our CoP water, then I'll agree to give up bottled water.

Fluorine? Must have been thinking of chorline. I meant fluoride, of course.