What's in our water?

[Zurdo]

When I was a kid we would fill a glass of water, and come back to drink it 20 minutes later when it had finally cleared...and it still tasted like a swimming pool. 60 years later, sometimes I run a bath, and it looks like I've already had a bath - it's muddy and murky. Town supply tap water has always been shit.

Now, tank water, that's a different story. It's full of bird shit and leaves...and who knows what else - but still better than town supply. We had tank water at the workshop, and my mate was welding under a car...and a spark went down his earhole. He raced outside and put his ear under the tank tap...all not good - he had had burned a hole in his eardrum. A couple of days later there is all sorts of crap pouring out of his ear...seriously infected. We had a look in the water tank....and there was a dead bird in there ! He was always deaf in that ear. We only used the water to make tea, so all good.