Some eight million gallons of treated drinking water have been flushed down the drain in the US state of Oregon after a man urinated into a reservoir. Did such a vast amount of water have to be dumped?

"Nobody wants to drink pee, and I don't want to deal with the 100 people who would be unhappy that I'm serving them pee in their water."

Those are the words of David Shaff, a water bureau official in Oregon's biggest city Portland, after flushing away 32 million litres of water.

Prof Boobis, from Imperial College London, points out that the reservoir already probably contained urine from fish and animals....

He says if there had been a similar breach of security in the UK, a barrage of tests would have been carried out before dumping the water.

One man's pee in 8 million gallons... FFS.

You tell that to a homeopath.

So Americans drink water straight out of a reservoir without any form of filtering or treatment applied?

The quality of treated and uncovered water will still surpass the majority of the world's drinking water.

People will come to me and say "I made orange juice with that water"

Could be squash/cordial as I've heard it by that name elsewhere. Or they take 1 glass of orange juice and add 2l of water and 500g of sugar to americanize it.