While technically all snow is water that nature recycled it is generally pretty clean stuff. Nature does a pretty good job of getting the bad stuff out. But now some skiers who hit the slopes at Snowbowl in Arizona will have to wonder if the snow is quite as pure. That’s because the snow isn’t being falling from the skies but rather will be manmade and it is coming from treated sewage water.
The key word of course is “treated” but a report by civil and environmental engineer suggested that chemicals could be left behind, but worse the water, and with it the snow, could contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria. There is an old saying about not eating yellow snow – and something tells us the same could be said of all the snow at Snowbowl!
[Via Discover Magazine: Manmade Snow From Recycled Sewer Water May Contain Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria]