Dead body in drinking water reservoir for a month results in "boil water advisory"

[Jesse13927]

@blackanvil

All surface water like this is filtered, deionized, UV sterilized, and usually chlorinated to boot, the boiling thing may well be more for them upping the chlorine levels for a while than for killing something pathenogenic.

Yes, but none of that makes it any less haunted.

[NukeML]

Death of Elisa Lam

[blackanvil]

I thought that was what the UV was for? Or is that just to keep vampires out of the water?

[chgoliz]

@dfaris

only to discover the remains up in the water tower on top of the building, and had been poisoning the water supply for quite some time.

Water towers on the tops of buildings are to hold water for fire fighting, from back when there wasn’t a way to pressurize water to get up that far. They’re not for drinking water.

There are places in the world where people get their water delivered to large tanks in their yards, but those aren’t on a rooftop.

[hecep]

For that — but with a ghost — refer to J-horror film, Dark Water (2002).

[MerelyGifted]

[MerelyGifted]

[MadLibrarian]

Thinking of the ‘human soup’ episode from the original CSI…

[nosaj]

@tcg550

And, if a body can get in there how hard is it to put something in that could hurt people?

In the quantities required to overcome the dilution? I’m guessing: very. As in, “lots and lots of big trucks” hard.

[fiatrn]

@fuzzyfungus

obviously distasteful.

That’s just your opinion. It might be mighty tasty.

[FGD135]

Keep calm and drink tea.

[DenverLett]

Human-a-tea?