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(Nov. 1) -- Someday, millions of Americans will be drinking their own urine, says Robert Roy Britt, managing editor of LiveScience.com, a news site that prides itself on the provocative approach it takes to science.
In a recent commentary for the site, Britt, based in arid Phoenix, said that because of imminent drought in the West, many people will have to rely on treated sewage -- containing human waste -- for their drinking water.
290 gallons of water for every man woman and child in the entire US go by my office every day on their way to the Gulf of Mexico. Many people swim in the Ohio River. Not my cup of tea, but isn't it obvious that this is simply a decision people make that they want to live or work in parts of the country with no water? Simple solution: live somewhere else.
What's the difference between recycling waste water and dumping it into a lake three or four miles from a "fresh" water intake so that we can suck the same water back in and begin the cycle again? Treatment plants dump treated waste water into lakes and rivers anyway. Might as well just save the round trip by completing the purification process, and put it back in to the fresh water system. I'm kind of surprised that it isn't being done more already.
There is more or less a finite amount of water on planet earth. A tiny amount has been blasted out into space in the last 40 years but that amount wouldn't make up 1/1,000,000 of one percent.
All the rest of the water (at some point in our planet's long history) has been consumed either by a human or an animal so every drop on the planet is most likely someone or something elses waste. All that matters is how clean the water is when you consume it. You can let the earth clean it or you can treat it yourself but the whole argument about drinking pee is just a marvelous headline to get you to read a news article.
Either all water is pee because it's all been consumed before or clean water isn't pee, but it can't be both. And since no one is planning to drink untreated urine isn't this story basically bu**sh**?
It isn't the urine you need to worry about. Waste watering processing facilities are pretty good at reclaiming water. The problem is that there is no process for removing medications from the water. Blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, and medications like estrogen are in our drinking water. Estrogen is raising havoc on the marine life in our waters. Without a doubt it is also effecting all of us. Urine in the water should be the least of your concerns.
Don't we already drink our own pee? Isn't that why we have stuff like treatment plants?
That's correct! This is a non issue. We've been drinking recycled water for the major part of the 20th century....Pump it out of the aquifer or lake or reservoir, a little chlorine a little fluoride and it's coming out of the tap....Flush it back down the toilet it's treated in the waste water treatment plant....back it goes to the aquifer (filtered more along the way by nature) ..........Heck I took a huge leak in Lake Superior the other day.....Right up by Superior WI! Take that cheeseheads!.....
Back in the old days, a house had an outhouse privy and a well. The pee leached down through the soil and eventually entered the water supply for the well. Today, we do it faster.
(Nov. 1) -- Someday, millions of Americans will be drinking their own urine, says Robert Roy Britt, managing editor of LiveScience.com, a news site that prides itself on the provocative approach it takes to science.
In a recent commentary for the site, Britt, based in arid Phoenix, said that because of imminent drought in the West, many people will have to rely on treated sewage -- containing human waste -- for their drinking water.
Never have and never will. I have always had my own drilled well and separate spetic system. The one now is located at least 100 ft away from the well which is 400' deep. My last pc of proeprty had 4 wells on it. My water now has a trace element of maganese, and a bit of sand that I filter, that's it. It's better than bottled water.
Never have and never will. I have always had my own drilled well and separate spetic system. The one now is located at least 100 ft away from the well which is 400' deep. My last pc of proeprty had 4 wells on it. My water now has a trace element of maganese, and a bit of sand that I filter, that's it. It's better than bottled water.
Enjoy your city water.
Yeah, your well is magically connected to "The Source of Never Used Water!"
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