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wtmusic

(39,166 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 01:27 PM Feb 2012

As ‘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 plant’s very existence is a triumph over one of the most stubborn problems facing the nation’s 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
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As ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides, Treated Wastewater Flows From Taps (Original Post) wtmusic Feb 2012 OP
Chicago drinks Kenosha's pee, Louisville drinks Cincinatti's pee... BiggJawn Feb 2012 #1
Yep malakai2 Feb 2012 #2
"will the yuck factor keep people from accepting it?" not if one is thirsty enough it wont leftyohiolib Feb 2012 #3
If one understands the hydrological cycle (and most Americans apparently don't), kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #4
I trust Mother Nature to do a much better job of it customerserviceguy Feb 2012 #5
+1 Nihil Feb 2012 #8
How many people have just given up on drinking tap water in this community customerserviceguy Feb 2012 #6
Reverse-osmosis units are the bomb. wtmusic Feb 2012 #7
"A fool and his money ..." Nihil Feb 2012 #9

BiggJawn

(23,051 posts)
1. Chicago drinks Kenosha's pee, Louisville drinks Cincinatti's pee...
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:39 PM
Feb 2012

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...

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
4. If one understands the hydrological cycle (and most Americans apparently don't),
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 03:28 PM
Feb 2012

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)
5. I trust Mother Nature to do a much better job of it
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 04:23 PM
Feb 2012

if she's not overwhelmed. I have a lot less trust in a utility company that has no competitors.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
6. How many people have just given up on drinking tap water in this community
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 04:30 PM
Feb 2012

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)
7. Reverse-osmosis units are the bomb.
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 10:55 PM
Feb 2012

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)
9. "A fool and his money ..."
Mon Feb 13, 2012, 08:55 AM
Feb 2012

> 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".


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