Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumAs ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides, Treated Wastewater Flows From Taps
"SAN DIEGO Almost hidden in the northern hills, the pilot water treatment plant here does not seem a harbinger of revolution. It cost $13 million, uses long-established technologies and produces a million gallons a day.
Donald Miralle for The New York Times
Purified water flowed from the tap at a treatment facility in San Diego. The city, which once rejected the approach in the face of public opposition, is now using some treated wastewater.
But the plants very existence is a triumph over one of the most stubborn problems facing the nations water managers: if they make clean drinking water from wastewater, will the yuck factor keep people from accepting it?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/science/earth/despite-yuck-factor-treated-wastewater-used-for-drinking.html?_r=1&ref=earth
BiggJawn
(23,051 posts)If you believe in Homeopathy, we're all drinking a powerful dilution of Amy Winehouse's pee...
Strange, sin't it, that turning custody of the water over to Mother Nature for a while makes it all better...
Check your water provider's chem tests. Look for trace amounts of caffeine and ethinylestradiol.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)one knows that ALL water is "treated wastewater". The only difference is whether Mother Nature or mankind's technology has done the "treating". Generally it's a combination of both when it's a public water supply.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)if she's not overwhelmed. I have a lot less trust in a utility company that has no competitors.
The more people understand this, the less profit goes to the bottled water companies.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)and simply started getting five gallon bottles delivered to their homes? Most water in the home is used for bathing/showering, toilet, dish and clothes washing, and floor mopping or other cleaning. Water used outside the home is for lawn and garden watering or car and driveway washing. The amount used for cooking and drinking is relatively small, and I can envision a lot of folks who can afford it buying water from a known clean source.
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)Ours cost $600 five years ago. We've saved several times that in bottle water, and RO water is actually purer.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)> How many people have just given up on drinking tap water in this community
> and simply started getting five gallon bottles delivered to their homes?
> ...
> I can envision a lot of folks who can afford it buying water from a known clean source.
Not only foolish in swallowing the marketing of the bottled water people
but doubly foolish in thinking that they are buying water from "a known
clean source".