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California to add recycled sewer water to the state reservoirs
Fox News ^ | March 7, 2018 | Fox News

Posted on 03/08/2018 5:03:38 AM PST by treetopsandroofs

California’s water regulation agency approved new measures Tuesday that will allow recycled water – water that once ran through the sewers – to be added to the state’s reservoirs, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: recycled; sewer; water
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To: Thibodeaux

“The storm drainage should be ok when treated.”

really not much better than sewage water: contains massive amounts of dog shit picked up as water runs across lawns and down into the storm drains. Plus all the crap autos deposit on the streets, like oil and grease.


61 posted on 03/08/2018 7:05:40 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

These idiots are trying to kill us all. What could go wrong?


62 posted on 03/08/2018 7:07:26 AM PST by semaj (U\)
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To: kearnyirish2
...I don’t understand how Arabs can desalinate seawater and California can’t...

Oil money.

63 posted on 03/08/2018 7:53:02 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: treetopsandroofs

Is there a way this water can be piped directly into the state capitol and Kim Jong Brown’s mansion?


64 posted on 03/08/2018 7:56:24 AM PST by DPMD
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To: BuffaloJack

Here in Contra Costa County, California, as a consequence of the draught, our Sanitary District offers for free this kind of water for people to use on their landscaping. The only real problem is that water is heavy and it makes it’s transportation problematic. I have a 300 gallon tank ( that I bought from an importer who used it to bring soy sauce here from the Far East). Three hundred gallons is about 2500lb, so the average utility trailer isn’t up to the task of hauling it, but idiots still try. What is needed is a distribution system, as you point out, so we can maintain our landscaping with what is essentially wastewater that is otherwise discharged (in our case, into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River).


65 posted on 03/08/2018 7:58:29 AM PST by vette6387
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To: BuffaloJack
Oh, and most important, they would draw the drinking water upstream from the ville, and vent it downstream.

It sucked to be the ville further down the stream.

66 posted on 03/08/2018 8:00:02 AM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: treetopsandroofs

There is more than E-Coli in recycled water...There is drug residue, both legal & illegal drugs. Good luck with that, citizens of Calif. Some studies show that as much as 50% of meth ingested in removed from a human body by excretion-—into the sewer systems. Impossible to filter out.


67 posted on 03/08/2018 8:02:37 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: blackdog

“I had an old farmhouse where the sink drains went to the large garden as gray water. “
Lots of smart people who have septic tanks drain their washing machine water on the yard or and on the garden. Pointless to waste that much water.


68 posted on 03/08/2018 8:04:01 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: treetopsandroofs

$h!t in, $h!t out!


69 posted on 03/08/2018 8:06:06 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Moonbeam’s $hithole state.


70 posted on 03/08/2018 8:07:33 AM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Sounds terrible, but when you think about it, all the water on the planet has been used and reused, over and over and over again, by every living thing that’s ever existed, for billions of years.


71 posted on 03/08/2018 8:11:00 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: BuffaloJack

>> only the potable tap was treated to get rid of bacteria <<

Yeah, but when I was there, I was told always to boil the water anyway.

Trouble was, even though the chlorinated water may have been OK to drink immediately after it left the treatment plant, it still ran underground thru cracked and leaky old pipes before it got to your tap. And during that uncertain journey, it often picked up dangerous pathogens along the way.


72 posted on 03/08/2018 8:15:45 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: 9422WMR

You cannot waste water. You can redistribute it ineffectively, but it does not get chemically eliminated. It is either sent back into the soil, processed in municipal or on site waste treatment facilities, evaporated into the air to be recondensed and return as rain, or emptied into streams, lakes, or oceans.


73 posted on 03/08/2018 8:19:30 AM PST by blackdog
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To: LibWhacker

A pond or lake is bombarded with tons of bird crap every day. It is pretty high in pathogens you really don’t want to deal with in your gut.


74 posted on 03/08/2018 8:22:52 AM PST by blackdog
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To: cyclotic

>> a gray water tank where laundry and maybe shower water could be diverted <<

I believe that approach is illegal in certain places, because some municipal systems really and truly need your “used” water to keep everything flowing properly thru their sewers.

(A related issue in the California Bay Area has been that some of the sewers have backed up with disastrous results, due to there not being enough water to flush the lines. The main cause of the problem here seems to be that there are too many low-flush toilets. Hooray for environmenalism!)


75 posted on 03/08/2018 8:27:57 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Does so

Vegetative stuff creates the sewers version of vegetable oil, which clings to the walls of drainage pipes so problems can cling to it. The EPA has been going after businesses for dumping FOG(fats,oil,grease) into any public sewer system for many years. Every restaurant has to have and maintain a grease interceptor that all their cleaning sinks and floor drains run through. About 8 years ago, the city of Raleigh tried prohibit any new residential sink disposers from being installed or used to replace ones that quit working. After a few months, they had to yank the regulation because of public outcry. Instead they spent several millions more on special utility trucks and a terminal for sucking FOG out of the sewers lines when it backs up.


76 posted on 03/08/2018 9:18:38 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: robroys woman
Recycled sewer water is actually some of the purest water on the planet. I’d drink it straight, depending on the processing plant.

It's no use, logic, science and facts have no impact on hate and utter ignorance.

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77 posted on 03/08/2018 10:54:16 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: catnipman

Joke? right?


78 posted on 03/08/2018 3:39:42 PM PST by Thibodeaux (The FISA judge is corrupt)
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To: Thibodeaux

“Joke? right?”

not a joke at all. storm runoff is nasty stuff in urban areas, which is why many municipalities run it through the same treatment plants as their waste water ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=storm+runoff+treatment&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b


79 posted on 03/08/2018 4:07:09 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: CurlyDave

Tech money?


80 posted on 03/09/2018 2:28:59 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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