5. playful or good-humoured joking: to say a thing in sport. 6. derisive mockery or the object of such mockery: to make sport of someone. 7. someone or something that is controlled by external influences: the sport of fate. 8. informal (sometimes qualified by: good, bad, etc) a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser. 9. informal a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game.
Few people like the taste of rusty water, and it can be downright disconcerting when brown or orange water pours out of your taps! But what can you do about it? And more importantly, is it dangerous? Fortunately, rusty pipes and rust in drinking water has not been linked to any health problems. While the orange, rusty water will likely not be as pleasant to drink (and you may want to buy a water pitcher with a filter while deciding what to do next), itâs not harmful to drink or wash in.
Copper (Pitting) Corrosion. There are many forms of corrosion, but pitting corrosion is most likely to culminate in pinhole leaks in copper plumbing. Pitting corrosion is the non-uniform localized attack of the wall of copper tube, pipe, or fittings initiated on the inside surface of copper water pipes.