{"id":465,"date":"2025-06-01T20:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2025-06-01T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:43:11","slug":"drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">THE DRINKING WATER AT MCALLISTER WELL FIELDS WILL REMAIN OPERATIONAL FOR TWO TO THREE WEEKS DEPENDING ON WORKLOAD AND OTHER STRESSORS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OTHER FORMS OF PROCURING DRINKABLE WATER ARE POSSIBLE IN THE LAB BUILDINGS, BUT THE RATE AT WHICH DRINKABLE WATER COULD BE PRODUCED IS NOWHERE NEAR THE DEMAND OF 1000 THIRSTY COLLEGE KIDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SOME STUDENTS (LIKE TRIP) KEEP A LIFE-STRAW ON THEM AT ALL TIMES FOR JUST AN OCCASION. WHAT IS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE? NOT ENOUGH TO DRINK SEA WATER OR OTHER CONTAMINATED WATERS, BUT CREEK WATER IS (SUPPOSEDLY) FAIR GAME.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WE DO NOT ENDORSE DRINKING CREEK WATER, EVEN THROUGH A LIFE-STRAW MINI FILTRATION UNIT. PEOPLE WILL DO WHAT THEY DO TO SURVIVE THOUGH.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IF THE\u00a0 BUILDING WATER SYSTEMS SHOULD SHUT DOWN ENTIRELY, ONE METHOD FOR PRODUCING DRINKABLE WATER IS EARTH FILTRATION FOLLOWED BY DISTILLATION. THIS TAKES A LOT OF TIME, BUT THE EARTH FILTERS WORK DECENT AND ARE EASY FOR EVERYONE TO PRODUCE, DISTILLING THE WATER WOULD DEPEND ON ACCESS TO FIRE\/HEAT.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DRINKING WATER AT MCALLISTER WELL FIELDS WILL REMAIN OPERATIONAL FOR TWO TO THREE WEEKS DEPENDING ON WORKLOAD AND OTHER STRESSORS.\u00a0 OTHER FORMS OF PROCURING DRINKABLE WATER ARE POSSIBLE IN THE LAB BUILDINGS, BUT THE RATE AT WHICH DRINKABLE WATER COULD BE PRODUCED IS NOWHERE NEAR THE DEMAND OF 1000 THIRSTY COLLEGE KIDS. SOME STUDENTS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/drinking-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drinking Water<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10723,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}