Drink Up NYC: Meet The Tiny Crustaceans (Not Kosher) In Your Tap Water

[Radiation]

So tiny shrimp were found in the tap water of NYC.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/31/drink-up-nyc-meet-the-tiny-crustaceans-not-kosher-in-your-tap-water/

New York City is known for having excellent tap water, but why does it taste so good? It might be the microscopic shrimp.

Tiny copepods were discovered after a reddit user uploaded photos of what they found through the other end of a microscope after adding H&E stain to New York tap water. According to blog Gizmodo, copepods are added to water to eat mosquito larvae, keeping water sources clear.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/31/drink-up-nyc-meet-the-tiny-crustaceans-not-kosher-in-your-tap-water/#ixzz1tGTuCri5

Just thought that this was interesting.

[N. De Plume]

Oh, tasty!

As to the bit about it being not kosher, I wonder how many other microscopic things a person will swallow over the course of their lives that would violate some religious rule or another.

[shykid]

I see nothing wrong with this as long as the water doesn't actually taste like shrimp. That would be disgusting.

Like the DEP spokesperson in the article suggested, if someone doesn't like it for whatever reason, they can filter their water. My only concern here would be a food allergy to crustaceans. But does that even exist, and are there even enough critters to cause a problem with that? I confess I fail biology forever here.

[N. De Plume]

I see nothing wrong with this as long as the water doesn't actually taste like shrimp. That would be disgusting.

Like the DEP spokesperson in the article suggested, if someone doesn't like it for whatever reason, they can filter their water. My only concern here would be a food allergy to crustaceans. But does that even exist, and are there even enough critters to cause a problem with that? I confess I fail biology forever here.

I am guessing that there is not enough to cause a problem. Cause it sounds like the crustaceans have been in the water for a long time but are only now becoming general knowledge. I would imagine that if they were enough to cause a problem for folks with allergies, it would have come up long before now.

Though perhaps some allergic folks have had a chronic mild discomfort of some sort, depending on how they react, that they have never been able to pin down before. But in any case, it doesn’t seem to have ever caused a serious problem.

[Osama bin Bambi]

If the Haredi Jews there find out about this, they'll flip their shit. Again.

Anyway, I believe that one can never have enough seafood, and I don't think it's a particularly bad thing. There's lots of stuff in the water supply that I'm sure we'd rather not know about. Heck, even the mineral content of water differs from region to region.

[Jack Bauer]

Crushed Asians in the water...