Posted on 01/18/2014 8:00:18 AM PST by truthnomatterwhat
We have a tendency in our society to take our drinking water for granted and assume that water contamination will be taken care of by our local authorities. We need to change the way we think in this regard because budgets for water treatment are drying up and the use of recycled water is now becoming more common. We can no longer just think of water as a gift from Mother Nature that will always be there when we need it, but rather as an industry and commodity which needs investment!
Here is one way how the contamination in drinking water begins.
The drugs and personal care products that we use in our lives on a daily basis are excreted from our bodies or are washed off us during our daily cleansing rituals. And, we often dump them down the sink as we wash out their containers for recycle. We’ve not yet counted here the drugs in our drinking water that people intentionally flush down their toilets or dump down their sinks when they want to dispose of them.
So, all of this waste ends up as sewage which flows into sewer systems and septic tanks. But where does it go from there? Although the waste then goes through treatment plants, the current municipal water processing systems that are used in just about every town and city in America, are not set up to deal with the volume and types of environmental waste that we create inadvertently every day.
Many scientists see water management as a critical issue, and are beginning to monitor the impact that Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in water have on our health. PPCPs detected in drinking water are....
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That is a joke there, but It will be deleted.
What upkeep? Is your house real old?
” I read a story about how Prozac was found in the water table in England.”
The thing the story didn’t tell you is to get the equivalent of a daily prescribed dose of Prosac, you’d have to drink the equal of a olympic-sized swimming pool of water every day. We can now detect things in the most minute concentrations imaginable! Like .001 parts per trillion.
If your tap water sucks, call the epa. They love to hassle water companies! I know! I retired from operating on two weeks ago, after 30 years.
The upkeep expense is on the sewer lines. They all had to be replaced with new pipes to the street and the town building inspector has to approve of an (expensive) engineering plan. They can back up if the main lines get overwhelmed in storms. Every government that exists can pass upgrades that have to be paid for and create new standards that must be met. I never had problems with septic, as I was careful about what went down the drain.
I’m a Plumbing contractor, is this your house you are talking about?
If a house lasts long enough then the line in the yard will have to be replaced, just as the line to the septic eventually gets replaced, but other than that, the septic is the one that requires routine maintenance, not a sewer line.
One installs a sewer line from the house to the property line when the house is built, and that should be it for 50 or 70 years.
Since I always, since childhood, had septic, I am very careful about what goes in the system. So for me, it (and being stuck with town water) seems like punishmet for other people's careless use.
If professionals replaced the sewer line in your yard, then you should be good for 75 years or so, with no further service needed.
I’ll take sewer over septic any day, septic is a problem that needs maintenance and attention and is a nightmare to replace.
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