Just wondering...
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Water that is used for one purpose or another is rated on the basis of how much E. coli bacteria is in there. E. coli comes from feces.
A scientist at a waste water treatment plant takes a sample of water and takes a certain sample, dilutes, that sample times 10, and dilutes it times 10 again and so on. Each sample is streaked onto a culture plate and incubated, and the colonies are counted. The dilution is taken into consideration, and the amount of E. coli in the water is noted. The water is treated with sodium laurel sulfate--the same thing in toothpaste--to reduce the amount of E. coli in the water so that it can be flushed safely into a river without contaminating it.
A water company must make sure that the water that reaches its customers is safe from not only E. coli, but heavy metals like mercury, lead, arsenic, and other contaminants as well.
When you think about what goes into the toilet bowl, there is a profoundly much higher E. coli count per unit of water than is in your drinking water. E. coli can't be seen any more than any other bacterium. And many diseases are passed by fecal-oral transmission. That doesn't mean anyone does anything nasty, but it means that water contaminated with feces is found in places that do not have good water treatment. This can be animal feces as well.
The reason that bottled spring water is touted as so good is it comes from a place that supposedly has a pristine source of water--free from contaminants. It is not so. One method of water treatment being looked at, though, is filtering it through limestone. There is a lot of limestone in my area (Louisville, KY), and the Louisville Water Company http://www.louisvilleky.gov/LWC , a premier water treatment company, has considered using this to continue providing one of the best and tastiest water in the U.S.
Back to your question; yes, it's okay. It's not advised, and you can easily get sick, especially if someone has an illness involving their gut.If your toilet has just been scrubbed, then there is caustic cleaner that will hurt your gullet. Go get it out of the kitchen faucet. But wash your hands, first.
A scientist at a waste water treatment plant takes a sample of water and takes a certain sample, dilutes, that sample times 10, and dilutes it times 10 again and so on. Each sample is streaked onto a culture plate and incubated, and the colonies are counted. The dilution is taken into consideration, and the amount of E. coli in the water is noted. The water is treated with sodium laurel sulfate--the same thing in toothpaste--to reduce the amount of E. coli in the water so that it can be flushed safely into a river without contaminating it.
A water company must make sure that the water that reaches its customers is safe from not only E. coli, but heavy metals like mercury, lead, arsenic, and other contaminants as well.
When you think about what goes into the toilet bowl, there is a profoundly much higher E. coli count per unit of water than is in your drinking water. E. coli can't be seen any more than any other bacterium. And many diseases are passed by fecal-oral transmission. That doesn't mean anyone does anything nasty, but it means that water contaminated with feces is found in places that do not have good water treatment. This can be animal feces as well.
The reason that bottled spring water is touted as so good is it comes from a place that supposedly has a pristine source of water--free from contaminants. It is not so. One method of water treatment being looked at, though, is filtering it through limestone. There is a lot of limestone in my area (Louisville, KY), and the Louisville Water Company http://www.louisvilleky.gov/LWC , a premier water treatment company, has considered using this to continue providing one of the best and tastiest water in the U.S.
Back to your question; yes, it's okay. It's not advised, and you can easily get sick, especially if someone has an illness involving their gut.If your toilet has just been scrubbed, then there is caustic cleaner that will hurt your gullet. Go get it out of the kitchen faucet. But wash your hands, first.