I just received this email from the Director for Communications and Development Division at Rhodes University. Here are a few important points:
THIS IS AN URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL STAFF AND STUDENTSPlease be aware that serious concerns have been voiced overthe toxicity levels of the municipal water supply. According to Martin Davies of the Department of Ichthyology and FisheriesScience, over 35 000 fish at the University's Experimental FishFarm have died over the last few days as a result.The deaths of these fish together with behavioural abnormalities which has been observed are indicative of the presence of heavy metal pollutants in the water.The particles are extremely toxic to human beings and cannot be removed through cooking or boiling water. In the meantime you are requested NOT to drink water from any taps on campus (or at home) and not to cook with this water if your home or residence was affected by the recent water outage.The University is making plans to bring further supplies of bottled drinking water to Grahamstown for distribution to residences.Well, most people I know, including myself, have been drinking the water at some stage during the last three days...but what about the people living in the township area, are they being warned and provided with bottled water?
Furthermore, what about those residents who do not have the luxury of a network connection and who do not receive this warning email? The local municipality really did a stuffy job at warning Grahamstown residence about this dangerous water problem...
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I just received this email from the Director for Communications and Development Division at Rhodes University. Here are a few important points:
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Pflaumiepoo
Ich liebe das new templatten, mein freind! Nice!
Hope the work is going ok, and that you're not getting too teraful on leaving das GSpot.
danke erbse auf toast!
work is done, weird feeling having no more academic work to do...
Still at the GSpot for a month, so will keep the tearfulness for the end :P
Apparently the peeps in the township were not affected as they get water off a different system! :-P
pete - shot for the update. Yeah, I heard the same. SO for now it's 'stay dirty and thirsty'!
Yep, dirty cos it might be able to be absorbed through the skin!
Jeez - how bad is it? An official word fromt the local powers-that-be?
Dead fish sound pretty serious!
Dead fish sound serious, so do smelly armpits!
There are mixed reports at this stage, but no official warning / clearance from the municipality...very frustrating!
This water thing is hectic. I really hope those in the Lokashin were notifed and helped out!
Those living in the 'Lokashin' have a different water supply. So they are safe. Back on campus however I still do not know if the water is good to use or not....some one tell me what's going on with our H2O!!!!!!