Fresh water from Lake Erie.. 

Not safe to drink.. Not safe to shower. Not even safe to look at..

The residents of Toledo, Ohio, are getting even more horrid news today.. Despite earlier allowances by officials to bathe and shower in water (as featured here) in their city, now they are being warned not to use it to clean their bodies.. this after days of restrictions has 500,000 people scrambling to get fresh water..

Story keeps getting worse..
Hopefully the toxicity of the water allows life to resume soon..

But looking at pictures like this, and others featured in news articles about the Erie algae bloom, the water looks more like the vat of chemicals that made Jack Napier the JOKER in 1989 BATMAN movie..

Behind Ohio drinking-water ban, a Lake Erie mystery

Phosphorus levels are lower today than they were in 2007, and in 2007 when they were higher the algae bloom being blamed for this water crisis did not exist.. among the reasons, scientists are now speculating, climate change and warmer temperatures.

But the only wrinkle of doubt and logic I will throw in that theory would be how cold all of the Great Lakes were this year, even up until now…

Behind Ohio drinking-water ban, a Lake Erie mystery