This is the first in a series of random topics from the China trip. Today's topic is water.Water is something that we take for granted, walk over to the tap and take a drink of cool water. In China ... not so much! You are not to drink the water in China; not just the visitors but the nationals do not drink the water at all.
The tap water has a strong sulfur smell and is naturally very soft water; however, no one drinks the water! We were even told to use bottled water for brushing your teeth.
Speaking of bottled water ... when we went to a restaurant to eat, we would order water and 90% of the bottled water was room temperature. Because of the poor water quality there is no ice and from what I could see very little refrigeration for water alone.One more "water" observation ... I don't have a clever way to tell this so I'll just put it out there. In China it is totally acceptable to water your grass/lawn with raw sewage water. I'm totally NOT joking here! They literally drop a sump-pump into an open manhole and and start pumping out the "water"! I'm not kidding it reeks! As I'm watching this process happen I'm thinking that just a few hours before the "watering" began I was playing with the kids in that grass! GROSS!
I remain,
Pastor Steve
2 comments:
Your blog has a new look....
Big Bro
Hmm, water and fertilizer at the same time.
I like my water room temperature- if it's too cold, I don't drink enough to actually hydrate myself. I'm weird that way, at least by American standards!
I'll be out your way in a little over a week! Hope to see you.
~Sheridan
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