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I've never lived anywhere that didn't get water from a reservoir or river that birds and other animals were living in or near, excreting into on a daily basis. I was shocked to read that Portland, OR planned to drain the reservoir on Mt. Tabor recently - all 38 million gallons of it - merely because they caught some nitwit peeing in it on a security camera. Urine is sterile, for goodness sakes! Treat it to meet federal drinking water standards and don't worry about who or what, did what, when, in it.
I read that thread too and I had the impression it was being drained to appease the public for the "gross out" factor. I've just assumed all water goes through some kind of reclamation and cleaning process. I mean, we all grew up with tap water and drinking fountains and have survived. Sometimes, it seems the media just likes to create mass panic. It helps keep everybody's minds off the dwindling paychecks, housing market and other dire economics.
Sensationalistic, misleading title and story treatment.
The simple truth is, any city drawing its water supply from a river or lake is already doing pretty much the same thing, because up the river or elsewhere on the lake there is waste entering the water that must be processed out to make the water safe to drink. It's just a matter of degree.
If anything, the Wichita Falls routine, including a reverse osmosis treatment, is probably superior to what many cities use. And needless to say, the water must meet federal standards for purity in order to be sold to the public.
The bottom line is, the only real issue here is people's "gross out" reaction to being told they're getting sewage water, and the simple, obvious fix is to stop saying that. They're getting safe, highly purified water, period.
Mainstream media does it all the time! At least with this one you get a half-truth, with mainstream media, you'd be lucky to get to know anything due to the consistent mainstream media blackouts on certain things.
Any home owner with a septic system and a water well on the same lot is already doing this.
The "Journalist" appears to be the typical beautiful airhead decorating our news shows. Have you ever talked with anyone with a "Journalist" degree? Great fun can be had convincing them of the most impossible physical absurdities.
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