Posted on 08/29/2025 5:55:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
With all the contamination in water beer not that bad of a option.
In LA they filter sewer water for drinking water.
Honey the soup has a tang to it you change brands?.
I know how you feel.
Yes, and I’ll stick to my wine. Picked off the side of steep hill by girls. And all the girls were named Eileen.
Those chemicals were, more than likely, there all along. Only now is it sensational to test for them.
My brothers kids work there, Denece and Denephew
Yeah...seems like another ‘alarmist report’ with no substance. No evidence given that this is even a health problem. It also tries to target beer(?). I’m not sure why that would be any different than any other drink.
If they’re ‘forever chemicals’ - does that mean they don’t react or decompose easily? If so, I’d expect them to be benign to our biology.
It seems to be an ‘anti-beer’ article trying to alarm people over nothing substantive.
The dose makes the poison.
We can detect minute levels of substances far far below the dose which would be toxic.
So there are toxins in beer which might affect you of you drank a hundred gallons of beer a week for fifty years.
So what?
Coffee is the same in that regard.
No amount of sugar or cream can hide the bitter taste.
Alcohol is a toxic chemical....................
“So there are toxins in beer which might affect you of you drank a hundred gallons of beer a week for fifty years.”
I’m doomed!...................
Yah, my problem, too. If something is “forever” it does not decompose — perhaps into deadly byproducts. Unless it acts as a catalyst why worry?
Swallow a diamond. Your body will do nothing to it. So, ??
sounds like a “risk” looking for a grant. This is how CO2 hysteria started, I remember.
Teetotaler, here.......... if you don’t count the occasional drop of homemade vanilla extract in my evening coffee for medicinal purposes.
“In LA they filter sewer water for drinking water
San Diego does as well.
San Antonio takes treatment plant effluent and sends it through the nations largest purple pipe network for reuse ,in agriculture, cooling and industrial. The also inject some of it into one of their drinking water aquifers up dip and pump it out again later when they need it.
Dallas and Ft Worth both put all or most of their effluent into the Trinity River then down stream both cities have pumps to take Trinity River water out and put it in 2000-3000 acre constructed wetlands where it percolates to the other side and it’s then pumped back to Dallas drinking water source of Lake Lavon or FT W. To lake Lewisville where it’s turned into drinking water again. The rest flows down stream directly to Lake Livingston Houston’s primary water source.
The other North Texas cities of Frisco,McKinney,Richardson all send effluent outfall directly to Lake Lavon for reuse. The northern suburbs of Ft Worth discharge to a fork of the Trinity River and it gets picked up down stream at one of those wetlands for reuse.
Big Spring and Ft Stockton both do tertiary treatments and RO for direct toilet to tap recycling the first in the nation. Singapore has for years done toilet to tap via reverse osmosis.
Every one is already drinking recycled water one way or the other if you live down stream from some other city you are drinking partially effluent from their upstream outfall.
New Orleans is downstream from half a continents sewage and animal wastes they outfall to the MS River and there are still communities down stream from them that drink MS River water.
Austin is about to do exactly what Dallas and Ft Worth did and take Colorado River water down stream from both its treatment plants put it in a sand filter basin or RO it and use it directly probably both with aquifer injection for additional storage. Texas is going to double in population by 2050 we don’t have the water to double consumption so recycling is a must, along with desalination and probably interbasin transfer from the Mississippi River pumped west from the Old River control outlet where the Red River and MS meet there is virtually unlimited acre feet that can be diverted in the wet season westward. It’s a 70/30 split of all flows at that point now out and down the Atchafalaya basin sending a million acre feet per or more per year west is drops in the bucket. 1MM acre feet in a year is only 1380 cubic feet per second. The Old River control outlet is designed for a maximum flow of 700,000 cubic feet per second literally drops in the bucket to send Texas 1 or even 10 million acre feet per year which would be 13800 cubic feet per second.
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