That is correct. When your city is striving to provide you with only the best artisanal water that mother nature can provide, it is simply not acceptable to introduce hipster urine to the supply.

This, from Time:

The Portland Water Bureau got pretty pissed off when cameras caught 21-year-old Josh Seater from Molalla, Oregon, urinating in a reservoir in Mount Tabor Park at about 1:30 am Wednesday morning.  The Bureau spent about $36,000 to drain the 7.8 million-gallon open reservoir, a major water source for the city’s residents.

But fortunately for Portlanders, urine is pretty much chemically sterile, Dave Stone, assistant professor of Toxicology at Oregon State University, told The Oregonian.

“It’s inappropriate behavior. But how many animals are doing that or birds?” he said. “I don’t want to second-guess the city, but I can’t think of anything chemically that would have me be concerned.”

Authorities argue that the hundreds of thousands of Rands spent draining the reservoir were justified, because the “thought” that someone had urinated in the reservoir would stop Portlandians from drinking tap water.

[Source : Time]