Ya, ya, I know the old adage is “you are what you eat” but, in this case it really is “you are what you drink.” And in this case, ewww.

Credit: Dave Bullock, Wired

Wired has some great pictures of Fountain Valley’s new $480 million microfiltration system that takes every thing from the water (and I mean “everything”) and filters the water back into a drinkable form.

So next time you have a glass of OC tap water: “bottoms” up…

P.S. Dave was a former blogger for the Los Angeles Metroblog