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| O.C. sewage will soon be drinking water |
| 2008-01-03 |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #14 Mike in #5 is right. Most "effluent" from Wastewater Treatment Plants (now called "Water Reclamation Facilities") is often cleaner than the river it's discharged to. And, we literally ALL live "downstream" of someone else's wastewater plant, so you're "drinking" it anyways. It's just a nasty thought that the effluent (even thought it's treated) from a wastewater plant will be piped straight into the drinking water plant. It does that somewhat already, but you don't get the "dilution" effect of adding it to a river before someone else sucks it out and drinks it downstream. True story here in metro Atlanta. Our local water supply (Lake Lanier, which feeds about 80% of metro Atlanta's water supplies of 5 million people) is WAAAAY down because of our drought. The folks living on the lake ($million+ homes) have fought tooth and nail to keep my County from putting it's SUPER-treated effluent (from the wastewater treatment process) into the lake, and have asked the County to spend millions to pipe the effluent to the River downstream of the dam forming Lake Lanier. Well, all the sudden, 18 months of drought has caused them to reconsider having that 40 million gallons/day of treated wastewater back in the lake, because their docks are high and dry. I just point this out to say that we ALL live downstream of someone else, so we're ALL "drinking poop" in some form or fashion. |
| Posted by: BA 2008-01-03 22:18 |
| #13 Grey-bearded, overweight hippie guys is one thing, CINDY CRAWFORD is quite another. Can't imagine ANGELINA "CHINA RULES THE WORLD" JOLIE = LARA CROFT eating her own recycled wastes. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-03 21:11 |
| #12 BUY THAT POPCORN - its gonna be mighty interestin' watchin how US-California OWG marketeers combine recycled human waste usage as "normal" vv stereotypic California "tan-and- fit" bikini/naked slinky poster babes.'TIS AS INTERESTIN' AS WATCHIN 1990's RADICAL ENVIRO PROFS EAT RECYCLED ASSORTED WASTE ON TV??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-03 21:07 |
| #11 You just knew the news of NASA desiring to recycle and use human waste in space forborne something related and weird was coming. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-03 21:00 |
| #10 Ebbang Uluque6305, you're local here in SD, right? Ever notice it was only going to be implemented in the first round - south of I-8? When they start in La Jolla, I'll partake |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-01-03 20:24 |
| #9 We are all made of water that has been excreted by countless living creatures over millions of years. Hey, maybe I've found the reason for all the world's ills. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-01-03 15:31 |
| #8 It's meth labs and industrial waste and God knows what else I've always wondered about hormones in the water, what with all the Premarine and the like being taken for HRT. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2008-01-03 14:12 |
| #7 OC is right next to the ocean. How is it easier to extract drinking water from sewage than from seawater? Well, I guess there isn't that much difference... And after all that purification what do they do? Add fluoride. Nice. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-01-03 12:40 |
| #6 They're trying to pull this shit in San Diego too. It isn't just pee and poop that goes down the sewers here. It's meth labs and industrial waste and God knows what else. I don't care what they say. I don't trust them to filter it all out. We are not Singapore or Hong Kong or Calcutta or Mexico City and although our politicians are taking us in that direction there are those of us who resent the hell out of it because San Diego used to be a wonderful place. We don't want the people of Singapore, Hong Kong, Calcutta and Mexico City bringing their problems here after they've screwed up their own cities. The politicians here tell us to conserve water and at the same time they keep issuing water hook up permits for the massive new housing tracts that the developers keep building. It's a crime. No, really, it is a crime. They call it growth but it's really nothing more than greedy developers buying the politicians and it's amazing how cheaply the politicians are willing to sell themselves. This is a desert, folks, so unless you want to drink your pee and poop you need to understand that everybody in the whole wide world cannot come to live here. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-03 12:39 |
| #5 This past year, I got to go on a guided tour of the local sewage treatment plant. At the point where they dump the treated water into the river, it's cleaner than river water and has a higher oxygen content. The fish tend to congregate there for the oxygen, and the fishing is said to be teriffic. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-01-03 12:04 |
| #4 All manner of marine and other wild life piss and crap in our water. We filter out what we can and chlorinate it so we can drink it from the faucet without getting sick. Singapore is pretty businesslike in its approach to governance. They do recycle their sewage water, using technology probably developed stateside, so this isn't some pie-in-the-sky green fanatic scheme. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2008-01-03 11:41 |
| #3 At this point, the water is free of bacteria, viruses, carcinogens, hormones, chemicals, toxic heavy metals, fertilizers, pesticides and dissolved pharmaceuticals Damn it! aficionados everywhere we must unite and fight to restore our fabulous bouquet, plz before it is lost forever! |
| Posted by: Lashkar-e-Dawg 2008-01-03 11:20 |
| #2 ...and speaking of Orange County Sewage |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-01-03 11:08 |
| #1 I just *knew* it had to be something in the water... (apologies to sane CA readers) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-03 10:56 |