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Maxirad
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Read this article to find out.
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Hobbes42
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Speaking as someone who has drunk his own urine in the past due to thirst 
, it isn’t that far a stretch to drink the purified stuff
, it isn’t that far a stretch to drink the purified stuff
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FaustinaJulia
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They DO realize that this isn’t just urine in the euphemism “sewer water” don’t they? Or did they think that we’d not… get it?
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John_Lazarus
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It’s a little bit “tl:dr” – I have to go to work in a few minutes, so I don’t have as much time to read the whole artcle and all its supporting links – so can someone give the Cliff’s Notes version about why it’s harder to get salt and other non-potables out of seawater than it is to get the ickies out of raw sewage? Also why concentrated brine dumped back in to the ocean is worse than the concentrated Number One and Two (as well as everything anyone has ever dumped in their toidy, including drugs) that’s being dumped now?
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JennyAnne
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Whether it’s healthy or not, you won’t catch me drinking my own urine! Yuck Maybe I rely too much on concept…
Maybe I rely too much on concept…
. Thankfully, we have more than enough clean, non-saline water to take from for a while yet.
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manualman
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Alluded to in the article, but you’re almost certainly already drinking water that’s been through somebody’s, ahem, kidneys…
Very many communities with large lakes and rivers pull their drinking water from those sources. And their sewage treatment plants discharge to… the same place! Granted, ONE city’s discharge usually takes place downstream of where their intake it. But the NEXT city downstream…
And if your town get’s water from wells, the picture is pretty much the same. Groundwater gets there by percolating down from the surface. Guess what happens in EVERY farmhouse and rural home when water goes down the drain? It is spread out to a septic field and percolates down into the ground… to the water table.
Today’s sewage treatment plants are doing a very good job on average. It’s the heavy rain days where rainwater leaks in and the plant gets swamped that the pollution still occurs. I suspect they’ll have a means of bypassing that. And it they’re smart, they’ll build a golf course or agricultural use on some highly pervious area and spray the effluent on that, let it perk down and then collect it via wells. Sewage treatment is really just nature with the fast forward button pushed.
Very many communities with large lakes and rivers pull their drinking water from those sources. And their sewage treatment plants discharge to… the same place! Granted, ONE city’s discharge usually takes place downstream of where their intake it. But the NEXT city downstream…
And if your town get’s water from wells, the picture is pretty much the same. Groundwater gets there by percolating down from the surface. Guess what happens in EVERY farmhouse and rural home when water goes down the drain? It is spread out to a septic field and percolates down into the ground… to the water table.
Today’s sewage treatment plants are doing a very good job on average. It’s the heavy rain days where rainwater leaks in and the plant gets swamped that the pollution still occurs. I suspect they’ll have a means of bypassing that. And it they’re smart, they’ll build a golf course or agricultural use on some highly pervious area and spray the effluent on that, let it perk down and then collect it via wells. Sewage treatment is really just nature with the fast forward button pushed.
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