Posted on 03/08/2018 5:03:38 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
And they discharge it right into the water! With the fish, and baby ducks! Poor things!
Good Lord, and “what could possibly go wrong”
Gonna be the name of my next band
In high skrool, I worked for one of the guys that developed the aireator for aerobic septic systems. One of the ways he sold the product was to take a glass and take a big drink of what was going out to the field lines.
He died riding a motorcycle in his late ‘80’s or early ‘90’s.
And almost all the pills they don't take, get flushed down the toilet as well. Base elements from all sorts of drugs are getting into the rivers and into next downstream municipality's water systems, all over the Country. These elements are even showing up in rain water in some areas. Now they want to cycle treated water through it's own source again... We may be bringing on our own unintended evolutionary process of becoming species that can't take care of itself.
Sometimes, I feel guilty emptying vegetative stuff down the sink. Our area’s sewer system is pumping all that stuff into a “well” 2000+ feet below us.
When I was born, the US population was one-half what it is today. (Maybe, even less).
Royal Caribbean cruise ships have been using closed water recycling systems for some years. I’m pretty finicky about the water I drink and I drink a lot of it and never had any problems with their water tasting or smelling off on the cruises we’ve taken with them.
Does New York City still "truck" their waste to the ocean on garbage scows?
I believe Santee, CA has had recycled sewer water for drinking water for years!!
Okay.
I have two water systems to my home. One is minimally treated river water which goes to my sprinkler system. I pay a small flat fee for that. Some people in my ‘hood use it for water features, like fountains and waterfalls.
Las Vegas has been using reclaimed wastewater via Lake Meade for a couple of decades now.
You don’t get jokes much, do you?
You do know that di-hydrogen monoxide, H2O, is water, right?
It’s what plants crave!
Nothing much new here. That’s pretty much the way it’s always worked anyway in the low-lying southeastern coastal states: cities draw their water upstream from big, broad, slow-moving rivers and then discharge their treated effluent downstream for use by the next downstream city.
I have a friend in one such city who once ran a wholesale tropical fish business with hundreds of fish tanks that used treated water from an industrial treatment system he built. He had his input water from his municipal water tap analyzed and said it was basically just recycled sewerage water.
Even places that you might think would have great water like the Rocky Mountain states often co-mingle pristine mountain runoff with irrigation ditch water containing return water from flood-irrigated fields that is loaded with dissolved herbicide, pesticides and fertilizers.
All of the above is why I used to have bottled water delivered and then 20 years ago switched to a five-stage, under-sink reverse osmosis system for drinking water.
Given the decline in competency across the board, I’m not so sure this is a good idea
“I don’t think radiation and pharmaceuticals can be filtered out.”
Any industrial reverse osmosis system will easily do that without a sweat. For one thing, the water itself isn’t “radioactive”, only the dissolved minerals or suspended particulate matter. RO systems filters everything out down to the molecular level, which is how even the dissolved minerals are removed.
I once observed a demonstration by nuclear scientists at a U.S. university who dipped their coffee-making water right from the tank of a small water-immersed research nuclear reactor they operated, explaining it was the purest water possible because of the filtering that was used.
“I don’t understand how Arabs can desalinate seawater and California can’t”
they don’t want to because it would eliminate one of the crises used to control the population. They’re wasting money on a 100 billion dollar train to nowhere instead.
The exception is the San Diego Carlsbad Desalination plant that came online two years ago and is the largest RO plant in the western hemisphere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsbad_Desalination_Plant
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