O.C. sewage will soon be drinking water (Orange County)

Los Angeles Times ^ | January 2, 2008 | Dan Weikel

[Rb ver. 2.0]

A $490-million plant will clean effluent to state standards, then inject it into the groundwater basin for further filtration.

As a hedge against water shortages and population growth, Orange County has begun operating the world’s largest, most modern reclamation plant — a facility that can turn 70 million gallons of treated sewage into drinking water every day.

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[Calpernia]

Ok, can I have volunteers to be the first to drink this?

[Admin Moderator]

Your link just goes to the L.A. Times image. Do you have a link to the article?

[Calpernia]

Renew Energy ping?

[goodnesswins]

El Cajon, CA residents have been drinking “filtered” sewer water for years......it has NO taste whatsoever....meaning....you don’t want to drink it.

[mysterio]

All drinking water has been sewage at one point or another.

[Calpernia]

Is this it?

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-reclaim2jan02,0,7789563.story?coll=la-home-local

[Rb ver. 2.0]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-reclaim2jan02,1,732425.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[Calpernia]

I understand that.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

I guess I’ll stop posting articles today, that was the 2nd time I screwed this one up. It’s three strikes, right?

[trumandogz]

Yes, you can be the volunteer.

All you need to do is go the the nearest faucet, pour yourself a glass of water and drink it.

Let us know if you survive after drinking water that was at one time sewage.

[battlecry]

How nice of them to want to make the water more like that of Mexico.

[Names Ash Housewares]

you have to laugh,

as gross as it sounds, it will probably be more pure then the present tap water! LOL

Pretty sure the astronauts have been already doing this for decades.

for the record, I would prefer they do de-salinazation of sea water. But I guess billions of animals use that for a toilet too.

[w1andsodidwe]

When I was in high school (in the 60's) in a Midwestern community our chemistry class visited the local sewage treatment plant. They told us that the water released from the plant into the local river was clean enough to be used by the next town down river.

The rest of the country has been doing this for years, only California has considered water a one use commodity. I noticed that the minute I moved here.

[bigcat32]

Looking at the graph of the water flow makes it clear they really filter the crap out of it.

[Calpernia]

We did water and soil treatment for my kids science projects last year. We also have multiple high tech fish tanks which work on a similar concept.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

That must be what those little brown spots are above the aquifer.

[Admin Moderator]

Thanks Rb ver. 2.0 and Calpernia for supplying the link.

[Calpernia]

bump

[CarrotAndStick]

As for seawater, that’s where all sewage has been heading for, since rivers began to flow.