News, Florida City to Turn Toilet Water Into Drinking Water (cost, regulations)
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PEMBROKE PINES The water in Pembroke Pines toilet bowls may soon show up in the drinking glasses of South Floridians from Miami to Boca Raton.
Within three years, Pembroke Pines plans to be the first South Florida city to inject treated sewage — about 7 million gallons a day — into the Biscayne Aquifer, which supplies most of the drinking water for Broward, Miami-Dade and southeastern Palm Beach County. That's about the amount of water in 11 Olympic swimming pools.
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Not necessarily, NYC has to have best water supply in entire world as far as large cities goes. Issue there is what happens to it once it gets to NYC.
I can attest to the quality of NYC's tap water, but I don't really know what reservoir or body of water NYC draws from. In any event, they definitely start with water that contains gray-water, sewage from uphill settlements and, more recently (if the NIMBY pundits can be believed), treated flowback water from Marcellus development.
I'm not sure it really matters what a coastal city ends up with, they are starting with some nasty stuff.
I can attest to the quality of NYC's tap water, but I don't really know what reservoir or body of water NYC draws from. In any event, they definitely start with water that contains gray-water, sewage from uphill settlements and, more recently (if the NIMBY pundits can be believed), treated flowback water from Marcellus development.
I'm not sure it really matters what a coastal city ends up with, they are starting with some nasty stuff.
Not so. NYC gets water from the Catskills and other upstate sources and does not ever require any treatment other than chlorine.
When I lived in Montana, I drank the water, it tasted fresh, and delicious. Any place else, I fliter my own water, and treat it. I also buy bottled water. You could not pay me enough to drink water in San Diego, or any border town...
When I lived in Montana, I drank the water, it tasted fresh, and delicious. Any place else, I fliter my own water, and treat it. I also buy bottled water. You could not pay me enough to drink water in San Diego, or any border town...
Or really any water starved town where sewerage is converted and put directly into the water supply. If I lived somewhere that had really disgusting water like Midland Tx I'd get a nice new big plastic tank and put it on a flat bed truck and go get 3000 gallons of drinkable water to cook drink and shower from someplace like Montana or St. Louis or whatever.
PEMBROKE PINES The water in Pembroke Pines toilet bowls may soon show up in the drinking glasses of South Floridians from Miami to Boca Raton.
Within three years, Pembroke Pines plans to be the first South Florida city to inject treated sewage — about 7 million gallons a day — into the Biscayne Aquifer, which supplies most of the drinking water for Broward, Miami-Dade and southeastern Palm Beach County. That's about the amount of water in 11 Olympic swimming pools.
Sorry to bring up an old thread but I wanted to ask something about what you posted, that's if you'll read this thread again. Anyways, could this concept also be used for laundry water and water that is very frequently used to wash dishes with? Or would water used in those situations be included in this? Thanks
Florida water, on average, is the most vile, foul, smelly, disgustingly problematic water in the entire country. If there is a state, county or town that has more vile water than whats found in Florida (short of living in proximity to an EPA superfund site), I sure have not heard of it.
Floridas disgusting water problems are several-fold, but I believe the most obnoxious problem that is very widely known, can be summed up in four very simple and potent words: it smells like ass.
Literally. It smells.... like ass. Not in a figurative sense... you turn on the water faucet, and your whole house stinks like ass within a few seconds.
I await the predictable reply of the deniers who will bold faced lie to everyone and claim they lived there for years and never heard of such a thing. Some apologist residents will say anything to trivialize one of Floridas most obnoxious problems, its disgusting and problematic water.
I await the predictable reply of the deniers who will bold faced lie to everyone and claim they lived there for years and never heard of such a thing.
This thread died a long time ago, don't hold your breath....
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