I feel obligated to write a quick follow-up post to say that, yep, the boil water advisory for downtown Vancouver is over. Rob has all the details.
Of course, Travis has been drinking the murky tap water for nearly a week, and there have been no reports of Montezuma’s Revenge.
I’ve also been meaning to point to Rob’s insightful post about the silver lining on the cloudy water:
Most of the time, it’s almost too easy to get safe drinking water in Vancouver: turn on a tap, and it appears. I never really have to think about there it comes from, how it gets here, and what happens to it after we use it. I’m guessing a lot of people have the same relationship with water.
Today, we’re all graduates in a crash course: Water 101, attendance mandatory. Suddenly we’re all thinking and talking about reservoirs, watersheds and land management. (I took a shower a few hours ago; it smelled like the ground in the forest… heavy on the compost.)
Someone famously said that future wars won’t be fought over oil, they’ll be fought over water. Maybe the fistfights in the CostCo aisles were a harbinger of battles to come?
DarrenBarefoot.com 
I once saw people get into a fist fight over eggs at the Superstore down the street from that Costco. I think the Grandview Costco is prone to acts of desperation because driving down Grandview Highway is oh so much fun.
Water?