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Would you drink your toilet water? If you live in Southern California, you might not have a choice.
The Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District gave the green light this month to a $300,000 contract involving a treatment plant that converts waste water into purified drinking water and stores it in the San Gabriel Basin, according to The San Bernardino County Sun.
I think it is a good idea... as long as the water pass all inspections...
We did something like this in my Chemistry class in college...(it wasnt toilet water, but from a dirty river)
I'm obviously ignorant of what sewer treatment plants do. I thought they had always done this with wastewater?
We have always had a septic system so I have no idea about sewer. Although with a septic system isn't it basically doing the same thing? The wastewater eventually filters down into the water table and some is eventually brought back up by the well?
I'm obviously ignorant of what sewer treatment plants do. I thought they had always done this with wastewater?
We have always had a septic system so I have no idea about sewer. Although with a septic system isn't it basically doing the same thing? The wastewater eventually filters down into the water table and some is eventually brought back up by the well?
Generally it doesn't go straight from the sewage plant to the water reservoir. Usually it's released into a river or something, but obviously, it'll eventually end up coming back out of the faucet again...
This just underscores a couple facts: water supplies in the heavily populated areas of the country are being stretched thin because simply put the land can't support such populations and growth indefinately, and secondly, it's really stupid defecating and urinating in our drinking water, simply to have things more convenient.
You have all been drinking recycled water all of your lives. We have the very same water on the planet today, that we had when the earth was formed, so everything you drinking has already been passed through a few dinosaurs along the way. Recycled water is perfectly safe, and has been consumed for many years in a lot of places..
I would rather not but if I had no choice I would, extra chlorine and a little microwave on the side please.
After thinking about things that goes down a toilet I'm changing to no way, not if I knew it.
Last edited by Roaddog; 07-26-2008 at 05:13 PM..
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