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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Hmmm....I have been criticized by friends for not drinking the tap water. Sam Da Soo looks even better now. *Ugh* |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: Re: Source of Drinking Water for Seoul? Here is one picture. |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
Trash-covered Soyang Reservoir, a drinking water source for the Seoul region.
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And that is why I use a Brita filter system. |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| All my korean friends have continually told me not to drink the tap water...None of them drink it either. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: |
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Now, if only Little Mixed Girl would post, we'd have all of the BoA avatars together.
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heydelores
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know where that reservoir is located? |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| And that is why I use a Brita filter system. |
If Brita can clean up that crap then I think they have a new commerical to sell their product. *Yuck*
I'll stick to bottled water. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| Are you fu@#ING KIDDING ME?! wow, talk about a potential propaganda tool for the North. Unbelievable! |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
| Hmmm....I have been criticized by friends for not drinking the tap water. Sam Da Soo looks even better now. *Ugh* |
Who told you this? One of the first Koreans I spoke to when I first arrived - that was 19996 - told me in clear English : "Don't drink the water from the sink. It's polluted."
Last time I was back in America, most people only use the tap water for bathing, also ... is this even worth talking about?
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:15 am Post subject: |
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I was talking with an old man I know (former army guy) about this today. He goes there all the time to check out the water level because there's a dam in N. Korea that apparently is larger than they're letting on and he looks for clues to try to find out how big it actually is. If it's bigger than it's supposed to be then they could come up with a surprise attack to restart the river that dried up when the dam was built, and since it used to flow into the Soyang Lake it could overflow.
I wrote a stub article on it a number of months ago but didn't see any mention of how dirty it is:
http://wiki.galbijim.com/Soyang_Lake
And from there you can see the picture Naver has of it:
Unless there's a difference between the Soyang Lake and Soyang Reservoir? |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
Last time I was back in America, most people only use the tap water for bathing, also ... is this even worth talking about? |
By America, do you mean N. America or USA? I think it depends which city/town you're living in. Growing up in Canada, we always drank from the tap. I don't know if I ever bought bottled water before coming to Korea. Depends on the water. Duh, I guess.
I turned out alright. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: Source of Drinking Water for Seoul? Here is one picture. |
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Oh my god, I laughed so hard when I saw this! The picture is waaayyyy worse than anything I could've imagined!  It's almost impossible to believe! |
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Jeju Rocks
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
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Turn on the water in the sink,
Everybody have a drink. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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These were foreigner friends that told me to drink the water. They have left for Canada now. They called me paranoid for only drinking bottled water. There are all types here.  |
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pdxsteve
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: Source of Drinking Water for Seoul? Here is one picture. |
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From the newspaper blurb, I get the feeling that this isn't the normail situation for the reservoir. It did state that the picture was taken after 9 days of heavy rain and flooding. So, it could just be all the crap in the water happened because of the flooding and it's not the usual situation. |
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