Imagine you’re washing a baby bottle, singing “Baby Shark” so that your toddler won’t go around destroying everything in the kitchen. All of a sudden, you see a baby worm coming out of the tap.
And imagine your fear when you go to the toilet, happily opening the Goody Feed app and ready to do your big business when you see a worm in the toilet bowl.
While these seem likely during the kampong days, you won’t have expected them to happen right here in contemporary Singapore, when tap water is deemed to be safe for drinking.
Well, it did happen. In just one block to be exact: Blk 472 at Ang Mo Kio Ave 10.
Here’s what happened.
Worms Found in Tap Water & Toilet Bowl
According to reports, a maid was washing a milk bottle at about 10:00 p.m. on 6 December 2018 when she saw a “4-5 cm live worm” coming out from the kitchen tap. The town council was notified and they dispatched two officers to the flat that night to do some cleaning.
In the exact same block, another resident saw a worm in the toilet bowl “a few weeks ago”.
Coincidence or?
Upon the incident, PUB and Ang Mo Kio Town Council investigated and found nothing. They said, “The water supply from the resident’s unit was found to be clean and clear during the town council’s checks…subsequently, AMKTC checked the water tanks and the pump room on 7 Dec and no worms were observed.”
However, to be safe, Ang Mo Kio Town Council then sent officers to clean the water tanks and pump room.
PUB has seen the photo of the “4-5cm worm” and speculated that it could have been an earthworm from the surrounding area.
Here’s an image of an earthworm for your reference:
Yikes. It’s either disgusting to you or delicious to you.
PUB Reassured People with Social Media
Yesterday, PUB reassured residents with a Facebook post and a video.
If you can’t read it, here’s what they’ve written:
It is not possible for worms to be present in tap water.
There have been some discussions about the quality of our tap water recently, following reports of an Ang Mo Kio resident who had earlier found a worm that look like an earthworm in their tap water.
PUB has a rigorous, multi-barrier water treatment process. A comprehensive water quality monitoring programme is also in place to ensure that we only deliver good and clean drinking water to all customers. Water supply is delivered to customers through pressurised mains. For high rise buildings, residents may receive water that has been pumped into the high level water tanks that are fully enclosed and securely locked. It is not likely for worms to make its way into these pressurised mains and enclosed systems, and be present in the tap water.
During PUB and Ang Mo Kio Town Council’s earlier checks, we had observed that water from the resident’s taps, in the water tank and from PUB’s water supply main, was clean and clear. Water samples collected from various points also showed that the water quality was satisfactory. There were no signs of worms at all water points, water tanks and the pump room.
Furthermore, we had checked that the resident’s tap was fitted with a constant flow regulator with tiny holes. This meant that it would not have been possible for a worm, which is larger in diameter, to pass through the tiny holes of the flow regulator.
We would like to assure the public that we maintain high standards for our drinking water.
Do note the second last paragraph: the resident’s tap was fitted with something that ensure water from the tap comes out through tiny holes. In other words, it is highly unlikely that the source of the worm is from the tap.
Here’s how the device looks like:
The most plausible explanation would be that the worm had dropped from the ceiling and the maid might have thought that it came from the tap instead. Either that, someone had tossed a gummy worm at the maid #justsaying #theydidnttrytoeatitright
Accompanying the post is a YouTube video that they posted on 21 December 2018; in other words, they could have spent resources just to show us that it’s really impossible for a worm to be in tap water.
You can, erm, shut your brain off to watch it because it’s just a guy telling us how safe the water is and that we can drink from the tap: things we’d have known since we were kids.
So, here’s a takeaway: tap water is still safe for consumption.
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