Since I spend so much time on this here log of Web talking about government failure, I thought I’d share a recent government success story: Calling the City of Sacramento Department of Utilities.
The Cool household woke up Friday morning with weird-looking water. A call to the Utilities hotline (311) got an agent dispatched to our home within about an hour to take samples (luckily, the water had normalized by then). It was like an in-home field trip for the kids. And then I just got off the phone with another science-talking-guy from the Department, who went over all the results (no contaminants, trace remnants of iron and manganese which suggested an open fire hydrant around the time of “The Incident”).
All in all it was satisfying to have a quality encounter with the government. U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!!
The Sac Rag 
Same thing happened to me. Water looked silvery-gray, stank to high heaven; they came out ASAP but by then it was back to normal. No idea what caused it.
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THE GUBMENTS POISONING YOU!! And/or Aliens. Don’t drink what you don’t catch yourself from the sky. [I’m sure there’s some eco-whacko group that has that as their slogan] Nice post.
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