Comments for A new treat at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://tracypress.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:26:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9489/2241/#comment-8369 That's pretty scary! - Tracy Mom Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:56:00 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9489/2241/#comment-8367 "The organs of any microscopic critters that slip through carbon filters between the Delta Mendota Canal and Tracy faucets are now smashed apart by ultraviolet lights before they’re poured into bathtubs and drinking glasses, following a $5 million addition to the city’s water treatment plant." John - did you know that ultraviolet light only works on pathogens in waste water that have a DNA> The problem with this type of waste water disenfectant system is it doesn't affect things like human hormones in the waste stream and it doesn't kill prions the precursor to Mad Cow Disease and its human variant form Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). A prion is a protein with no nucleic acids - meaning they cannot reproduce. It is a protein with an altered shape or abnormality and is said to be able to bind to other proteins and induce an altered shape or abnormality. This sets off a domino effect, increasing the number of abnormal proteins exponentially. Prions cannot be destroyed by cooking, canning, freezing, digestion, sterilization, radiation (like untraviolet light) or with formaldehyde. They are considered one of the smallest and most lethal self-perpetuating entities in the world, and can remain infectious for many years in soil, water, and organisms. - PomboPosse Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:49:02 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9489/2241/#comment-8278 Chris Right you are and they are pretty cheap. I use to dabble with salt water aquariums and quickly learned that Tracy water just isn't good enough. So I installed a reverse osmosis system to "make" my own clean water. You can even hook it up to your ice maker so that your ice is clean as well. I even had the water tested at a lab, because I wanted what was best for my fish, and it came back cleaner than most bottled water you buy in the store. - David Hardesty Thu, 31 May 2007 17:46:03 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9489/2241/#comment-8238 Owning & Maintaining a home tap water filter is cheap insurance! www.waterfilterfacts.com - Chris Anderson Thu, 31 May 2007 13:40:25 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9489/2241/#comment-8194 Good article John. Now if we can only solve our wastewater woes. - David Hardesty Thu, 31 May 2007 09:53:32 +0100