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Except that some emergency survival manuals suggest drinking water from toilet tanks [not bowls or urinals :-)] if water supplies are cut. I would certainly want to know if the water in my tank weren’t potable.
It would be useful for dogs to know as well. Dogs that can read, that is (maybe it should have been a pictogram).
I’ll be relying on my toilet tank for water when the big earthquake hits (the reason I don’t have one of those blue crystal cleaners in there (apart from the environmental hazard of constantly flushing blue chemicals down the toilet).
A Portland regulation requires that any toilet not using the city water supply have this posted, including private homes that use rainwater for their toilets (or for any other spigot).
In the event of natural disaster, if you think the contents of your toilet tank are all you need to tide you over, you’re likely to get very thirsty. Store water, lots of it. Rotate your stock. Don’t count on relief supplies getting in within 72 hours.
In my case, that’s two toilet tanks plus a few gallons in store bought jugs for one person.
The only circumstances a sane person would consider drinking out of a public toilet tank would be where death by dehydration is imminent and relief suppies aren’t arriving. Given that, I’d probably take a chance with the “grey water”.
Since it’s a public toilet, it likely wouldn’t be difficult to find a few drops of bleach to kill off some nasties.
That’s hilarious! A similar sign posted in a rest stop washroom at the tolls on the Coquihalla said something like “do not drink,” accompanied by a tap in a crossed out circle. At least that one was a pictogram.
I am an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). For those who may know it as something else I am part of the team that shows up in the ambulance. It’s only my opinion but having witnessed first hand what people can and will do. Most of the time feeling they were using common since and good judgment in there actions. That by using signs and warning labels we are only delaying the inevitable. Evaluation can only be postponed and not prevented. It will prevail despite all efforts no matter how well intended. If someone thinks it is a good idea to drink from a public toilet bowl I say cheers and bottoms up all pun intended.
it is a funny sign which i learned the bad way i wish i’d read it but too late