{"id":113,"date":"2006-11-16T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T07:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/mmmmm\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T23:19:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T07:19:47","slug":"mmmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/mmmmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmmmm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on in the rest of the GVRD, but this is what&#8217;s coming out of my tap right now:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/misc\/img_0009.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/15818-2\/img_0009.jpg\" alt=\"my water\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the problem is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turbidity\">turbidity<\/a>.  According to Wikipedia, 1 NTU (turbidity units) is the bar to clear, and 0.1 NTU is the target.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvrd.bc.ca\/water\/default.asp\">GVRD turbidity page<\/a> (who would have thought they had one?) says we&#8217;re at 53.  I will repeat the title: Mmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re supposed to boil the water.  I&#8217;m undecided.  Option 1: saying &#8220;fuck it&#8221; and calling people pussies for not wanting to deal with water that has a little character.  Option 2: not taking the chance on being that one stupid bastard who dies after not boiling his water.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also wondering how long it takes particles like that to settle out.  I boiled some water, partly to conduct that experiment in the fridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on in the rest of the GVRD, but this is what&#8217;s coming out of my tap right now: Apparently, the problem is turbidity. According to Wikipedia, 1 NTU (turbidity units) is the bar to clear, and 0.1 NTU is the target. The GVRD turbidity page (who would have thought they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}