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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
I do live in an old steel town, one of the most famous steel towns in the world, but most of the plants are now shut down, so the rivers here (allegedly) have fish in them nowadays. The drinking water comes from up in the hills luckily and is one of the only public supplies in Britain with absolutely no (known) additives.
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Our steel mills, like those in presumably our sister city (I think that I know where you are referring to), also are mostly gone. This, however, has only improved the water quality somewhat as it still has to go through the city system, which is decaying due to lack of a tax base and sensible policies. Where once was a thriving city could now be home to cattle (assuming that they didn't eat the grass or litter) as many building have been razed to the ground.
Know that somewhere upstream that there was illegal dumping of heavy metals - right near the river. Surely these chemicals haven't gotten loose and into the water table...
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Something else reminds me of 'brackish Mordor water' though, the slimy water you get in the bottom of drip trays in office water coolers.
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Yuck!
