A recent announcement at dinner: "Municipality have confirmed someone got typhoon from drinking Grahamstown water."
Blumin' heck can you imagine getting a typhoon!?! No,nor can I! So I'm guessing they meant typhoid. Luckily we were vaccinated against typhoid before coming here.
However,some investigations (i.e. googleing!) led to the discovery that there's "ALARMINGLY high levels of deadly toxic metals in Grahamstown’s tap water"!! Long-term drinking of the water can lead to all sorts,including memory loss+arsenic poisoning!! Long-term drinking of the water can...haha!
Seriously though,if you drink it for less than 3months you should be fine. We've been here about 5weeks now+today bought liters of bottled water for the remainder of our time here. The other students however,are drinking the water as much as before!
Oh+here's a line I particularly liked from the article about this:"Although some heavy metal consumption may not be immediately problematic,concerns have been raised over the long-term accumulative affect"
About Me
- George
- I’ve set up this site to keep those who are interested informed about how my stay in South Africa is going during January-April 2010.
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