Brings new meaning to use only distilled water for humidifying your cigars!?! :-)

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/23/us/ore...html?hpt=hp_t2

(CNN) -- About 670,000 residents in Oregon were advised Friday to boil drinking water after several tests showed E. coli in some water samples, the Portland Water Bureau said.
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I live in Beaverton and while we are next to Portland we have a totally different water source :-)
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Wow if it's not kids peeing in the water it's E. coli, just can't win.
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Or as a friend said, "if it ain't #1 it's #2"
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ha!

We bought a Berkey water filter. We still use our tap most of the time. Now, though, if I have an issue with my primary water source, I can at least filter a rather large amount of water to keep up with the needs of cooking/cleaning.

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Good luck, Oregonians!
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The funny thing about this was that it took 3 days or so after the first dirty test came in to call the boil water alert. That being said I doubt there was much of a real danger, but I heard stories about people who thought they were sick. Power of suggestion?
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The three days was for the second tests to ensure it wasn't a false positive.
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