Students from Hiroshima University’s Higashi-Hiroshima Campus have been unknowingly drinking toilet water since April, 1993.
It took around 80 students getting ill with diarrhea and vomiting before uncovering a plumbing error that sent water for flushing toilets, instead of quality water, to the drinking fountains in the gymnasium.
University officials have apologized for the mix up.
Sun Tzu has spent about 7 years in Asia traveling through Japan, Hong Kong, China, and Korea. A true fan of everything that is weird and strange, he decides in the end what is displayed and published on this site. Sun has previous experience writing for numerous print mags such as XLR8R, URB, and Movement Magazine.
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uh…..wow……
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Is this article four years old, or did the author not pass third grade?
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Hmmm, last I checked 14> 10
Thus, making his original statement of “for over 10 years” correct.
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He said over 10 years.. maybe you should go back to third grade…
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wow … what a mix up … ouch !
Rober
… and no one has died in this time, so toilet water is not so bad as it seems…
Jure
That wasn’t water with shit.
That was tehnical water(provably they have tehnical and fresh water seperated).
Jeff
technical, technical separated. probably.
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Greg
XD lmao… those damn potty mouth Asians
my question is why did the kids get sick now? why not any earlier in those 10 years???
Yomomma
This was the first time the water had lumps in it.
Heather
What??? There were lumps???????????? OMG!!!!
Stephen
*plumber* Oops, ma bad ma bad. Lemme just fiddle with this doohickey and … yeaaah there you go, all fixed.
Edwin
That all they get, an apology.
Dirty Mingo
It wasn’t water from the toilet. It was water intended for flushing the toilet. Secondary water source maybe?
ann
that is discusting that they drank toilet water. and they JUST figured it out after 10 YEARS?!?!?!?!
feel bad for the students…
ann
EWWW!!!!!!
oh and maybe the plumber did it on purpose because probably he didn’t get paid enough so he did that to be MEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mannibis
umm..water intended for flushing toilets is the same as water intended for cleaning ur hands, which is basically tap water. anyone that knows anything about plumbing knows that..so im not sure they got sick from the water being “toilet water” more than being dirty regular water instead of bottled/filtered water.
Mark
not really if you knew any thing about plumbing in other countries you would know that some countries use untreated water or gray water for flushing and other non human consumption needs , washing machines ect. And potable water for drinking use only. This is not an uncommon thing unlike in North America we have been so accustomed to using 100% potable water for all our needs from fire hydrants, grass watering to flushing the toilets
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right on the dot, mark, as a plumber it is well known that many other countries use gray water systems and especially cruise ships.
Jure
THEY HAVE SEPERATED THOSE 2 THINGS!!!
Adam
Wow…that really sucks
Hank
The water they drank was the water that was supposed to go into the toilet, not out of it. They didn’t drink pee, they drank water that had not been filtered as much as normal tap water.
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oh! thank you Hank i was confused about it 😉
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LOL. This is hilarious. Wonder what those guys did when they learned about this sewerage drinking.
dave
ive tired it….not too bad,….i was also drunk as fuck and passed out on the toilet.
Otto
It’s known as “greywater”. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greywater
Basically, you take water that’s not all that dirty, like from sinks or showers, filter it a minor bit, then use it to flush toilets. It’s not clean enough to drink, but perfectly clean enough to poop in.
It’s a money and water saving technique used a lot in Asia and Europe. Not used so much in North America.
Richard
otto,
Its used here in the US more than people realize. It keeps the grass green at Disney world and the fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas full.
Maul
Clean enough to poop in? You, sir, clearly have third rate poop.
Jacko
Uhhh, the water in my toilet is as clean as the water coming out of my faucet. I don’t know what backwater nation you live in!
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You’d think Mario and Luigi would have fixed this sooner
AlexV
Actually, this is done in the US as well…
Where I work, they take water out of the river, filter it somewhat and use it for cooling very large equipment (etc). This water source also feeds the toilets. Certainly not meant to drink, and throughout the building you’ll see two sets of pipes. The drinking water (from the municipality) and the other water.
mannibis
Does it really save that much money? They would have to first filter it, and install an entirely new piping system. I guess in the end it pays off..
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I am amazed by the in-depth analysis that all of you have provided concerning the source of the toilet water, and the different kinds of pipes etc. Bravo!
doug
A similar thing happened here in the Tampa area, Florida. Residents of a subdivision discovered that they had been drinking what we call “reclaimed water” (NON-potable) because the lines for the lawn irrigation system accidently got connected into the potable water line for the subdivision.
fre
could be grey water yea, recycled water filtered enough for toilets and irrigation but not for human consumption. either because its not filtered enough or because people deem it gross.
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IT just like bottle water.
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Wait, here in Pennsylvania, all water is gray. Well, at least in the cities, coming out of the pipes. Only people with wells have clear water. There are also municipalities that are just getting rid of their lead sewer pipes and others which are requiring people to use copper water pipes. And there is so much Chlorine in the water that you have to boil it in a well-ventilated area or turn your home into a Nazi gas chamber. (To those few Holocaust survivors who may be reading this, I apologize if that joke offends you.) So, the point is, we all have shitty water here, what is the difference?
Mr anonymous
Never boil water to get rid of Chlorine, it’s a gross waste of energy. Just leave it in an open container in sunlight for a while and the chlorine will gas out.
I suppose you could open a window for ventilation, but it’s extremely unlikely such a small amount of Chlorine gas would be harmful.
Dave Mackey
Wow, that is pretty crazy. Good thing it was the water coming before the flushing rather than after – though I am sure they would have discovered it earlier that way.
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Ok so what water was goin to the toilet??? i mean if they were dogs at the varsity they must have been flippin stoked!!!
Rob
Whats wrong with we use the same water to flush our toilet as we do to drink the water hadn’t gone though the toilet thats just where it was suposed to end up.
the loud one
Umm, the water at my school is this weird clody white no matter what source it’s coming from, even the toilets, so… is it safe to drink?
faceless
the white could just be because of air in the water – if you leave it to settle for a minute it should be ok
Rick
That is sick. Just an apology?
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Gross!!!! I can’t believe that!
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That is sick. Just an apology?
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YOU MEAN THAT ALL THAT TIME THEY WERE DRINKING TOILET WATER ……..GROSS
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All the water in the world was once dinasur pee, it is what has happened since then, evaporation. You can only feel clean and pure if YOU evaporate and condense your own drinking water. Then you will have the proud right to talk. And you need to remember that the ‘sand people’ with rags on their heads, love to drink their own pee. Look what has happened to them, they live on a beach that has no water, kiss the dirt 5 times a day, make the women cover their faces so the men will not like them, make it illegal to say bad things about their religion or culture or government. will not let visitors bring bibles or crosses into their country, WON”T LET ME AN AMERICAN DRINK BEER in their country. The Jewish people gave them a crystal clear stone, that they walk around in their unbathed bodies and have turned black, but they do dole out a precentage of ‘their” oil profits to all ‘just their” citizens. Similatr to the USA only thinking free & EQUAL is just for the people inside their boarders. Learn lots of facts (sorry about the crystal clear rock), but with lots of facts then you can sort out what is to be okay, and what you can not like.
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Looks like another WIN for team Japan sickness! Hahaha I love all the weird stuff that goes down there.
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BillyBill
This type of water is called “non-potable” and is considered unsafe to drink. Non-potable water is pumped from rivers, wells, springs, lakes, oceans, etc. and is not treated. The non-potable source could have any variety of contaminates causing the sickness, it may have also had contaminatin that could cause other illness.
Potable water is treated and tested and tehrefore safe for human consuption.
marie
k that is just DISCUSTING and WEIRD!!!!!!!!!
i agree with ann.
she is like so right.
marta
man ann is right….
they are like totally dumb.
sheesh…. they just figured it out after 10 years?!?!?!
you have got to be kidding me. good thing i wasn’t one of those students.
elizabeth
Ann!!! you are so damn right!
they are really dumb!!!!!
good thing i never drank from that water…. ewww
lilly
guys you should listen to ann.
she is TOTALLY right!!!
and the plubmer might have did it on purpose. you know people these days. idiots…. sheesh….
ann you are DAMN right!
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U ARE RIGHT ANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ann
the plumber could have done it on purpose because he didn’t get paid enough and he wanted to get revenge….
and they were drinking toilet water for 10 years!
unbelieveable…..
people these days…. can’t understand’em
weird don’t u think????
O’Neil
It was technical water BTW ISS has the same thing except it’s technical water really is recovered toilet water it goes to O2 production.
The only place I heard it being done on earth was on ocean going ships that flushed the toilets with salt water and with gray water systems where water was recovered from sinks and showers treated and used to flush the toilets.
Kalli
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!! OMFG, that is freakin hilarious!Thumbs up to the asians!
(and i thought the asians were supposed to be the smart ones)
James
That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
John
yes, very sad story. James, you never know what you drink now 🙁
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yes, very sad story. James, you never know what you drink now 🙁
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This is way too funny… I'm gonna start testing the PH balance of my water before I drink it now… LOL
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Man, this is strange. I mean, how did they really think when they plumbed it!?? LOL!!!
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Oh my god that is disgusting. I can't imagine that!
Andy
Apologize?! are you kidding me? The students should be suing them for a a lot of money. That story is ridiculous. In America you wouldn't be able to get away with that.
James
Now that is quite unfortunate. I wonder how many people in the school were getting sick each year from that, and also if it had a smell to it? Poor kids..
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It's not as bad as it sounds, at least it wasn't water COMING from the toilet. It's just water which was intended to GO to the toilet so, at least the poor university students didn't drink pee but still 80 people got sick and all they got was a lousy apology..
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Wow…give a damn apology and you can get away with just anything…this is so disgusting man!! They must seriously do something about this.
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