jak2002003 Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 A Liverwort is a plant. http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/B/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watcharacters Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 8 minutes ago, jak2002003 said: A Liverwort is a plant. http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/B/ My utmost apology for my error. I must have some sort of brain disease caused by liver flukes. But you knew to what I referred, I'm sure. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33095945 OR: https://www.liverdoctor.com/liver-problems/liver-fluke/ Sorry for my error.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grollies Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 47 minutes ago, jak2002003 said: Do you mean algal growth? If you do, then I am pretty sure algae will never grow in lead pipes, or any other kind of pipes for that matter, because it needs sunlight to grow. Down in the underground pipes its pitch black... so no algae or plants can grow. Not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acharn Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I don't know what you're talking about. I lived in Bangkok for almost twenty years and drank the tap water. It horrified my grandchildren, but I've drunk worse water than that and never once had a stomach ache or gastrointestinal problems. They do purify the water. The people who insist on drinking bottled water are wasting their money based on the way things were forty-five years ago. I drink the tap water here in Nakhorn Sawan, too, but don't tell my nieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acharn Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 On 2/11/2018 at 3:40 PM, grollies said: I'd disagree with that having worked in the UK water industry. UK tap water is perfectly safe to drink. Don't know about Paris, New York, etc. Is BKK water safe to drink? I drank it for many years without problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Acharn said: I don't know what you're talking about. I lived in Bangkok for almost twenty years and drank the tap water. It horrified my grandchildren, but I've drunk worse water than that and never once had a stomach ache or gastrointestinal problems. They do purify the water. The people who insist on drinking bottled water are wasting their money based on the way things were forty-five years ago. I drink the tap water here in Nakhorn Sawan, too, but don't tell my nieces. It may be perfectly safe. I don't know. But I have tasted it and don't mind popping 8-10 baht for a 1.5 liter bottle of better tasting water. When I was a kid, the water at my grandparent's house tasted so much better than the water at my home, 10 miles away in the suburbs, we would fill gallons and gallons into empty milk jugs every time we went to visit. That was before bottled water was a thing. Both waters were perfectly safe. But theirs was city lake water and ours was suburban well water. To this day, I can't even stand the smell of that suburban well water after I was away from it for a year or so. Edited February 12, 2018 by impulse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 2 hours ago, grollies said: So by adding phosphate to drinking water doesn't encourage algael growth in lead pipe? Phosphate is a nutrient, so presumably it encourages biomass of some kind. Whether that's algae or not in a closed environment is questionable. It's the reason environmental authorities place limits on phosphate discharge in wastewater, as it causes algal blooms in receiving water bodies. I'll spell it out for you. At best your first post was ambiguous, and you were plain wrong in claiming algae assisted water flow in pipes. It does the opposite. Now you are trying to bullshit your way out of your dubious understanding of the mechanical, biological and electrochemical processes involved. I'm not going to waste my time explaining it to you any further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jak2002003 Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 3 hours ago, grollies said: Not true. Sorry, are you making a joke or are you serious? If you are making a joke I don't get it. If you are serious can you tell me how algae can grow without sunlight? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 8 hours ago, jak2002003 said: Sorry, are you making a joke or are you serious? If you are making a joke I don't get it. If you are serious can you tell me how algae can grow without sunlight? Thanks. It's another example of the poster's imprecise terminology. Growth of slimes and moulds in pipes in the absence of light is referred to as biomass. You are correct in asserting algae needs light to grow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colabamumbai Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 When you live here long enough "why" is not in your vocabulary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watcharacters Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 6 hours ago, Colabamumbai said: When you live here long enough "why" is not in your vocabulary. Not an intelligent reply but understandable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyg Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 On 2/12/2018 at 1:04 PM, Thian said: I guess that in london they use a copper waterpipe which doesn't allow all kind of things to grow in there. But i drink thai tapwater in BKK all days, it goes from the watertank to the pump to the waterfilter to the fridge into my YETI rambler, i drink about 5-6 of them a day. I tried drinking the tap water in Samut Prakan and Naklua. Soon figured out it was making me sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thian Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 2 hours ago, joeyg said: I tried drinking the tap water in Samut Prakan and Naklua. Soon figured out it was making me sick. In some provinces the tapwater has very high calcium..you should see my mil's bathroom....the chalk grows everywhere. But they drink rainwater there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bludove Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 UK in general is ok, but some areas have hard and some soft water, I remember a very large international company bottling water direct from the main tap water. UK water companies were not allowed to employ Asians because they were carriers of typhoid (the ones that have corner shops and restaurants). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 On 2/11/2018 at 8:59 PM, StreetCowboy said: A friend of mine fished a dead squirrel out of his water tank. Thats why you supposed to have a lid on it...anyway what about all those fish pooing and peeing in the water ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thongkorn Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 8 hours ago, johng said: Thats why you supposed to have a lid on it...anyway what about all those fish pooing and peeing in the water ? you know what else fish do in water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 you know what else fish do in water.Swim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 8 hours ago, Thongkorn said: you know what else fish do in water. I suspect they do just about everything a fish can do . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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