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Whoa, you do want the efflux of a sewage plant to be clean water, right? I mean the connect it to the potable water water system clean.

Or do you want the Ganges? Or some Mexican river?

Yes it may be what you say -- that this is Raleigh's way of getting effluent numbers under the stricter regulations. But the stricter regulations are helpful, although not without good questioning.

Me, I like a glass of cool clean water. That's why I like my well!

You have a well, you won’t be affected by the regulation changes, you therefore have the luxury of passing along your approval of measures that affect others; is that the way this works?

You should speak with a bit of respect for the group you presume to counsel in order to sound a little less imperious.

I like my well water too! Our local waster treatment authority, though, is on the cutting edge of technology, and is working their way toward a "beneficial re-use" system (aka toilet to tap) where they will treat the liquids, run them across the valley in pipes to cool the treated liquid, and inject it back into the aquifer - all in 24 hours. We don't need it here to have sufficient water, we need it because the EPA has limited what can be put back into the streams to some number of gallons a day set back in the 60's and not increased. Since they've forced nearly everyone onto public sewer, most of the water we use ends up going back through the sewer system instead of filtering back through the ground. Consequently, they've reached the 'discharge limit' set by the US government back in the 50's or 60's, and the only way to allow more water use is to find some other way to handle the treated water. They did experiment with using it as spray irrigation, but the EPA also has strong limits on when you can do that (based on weather, temperature, etc) and they figured we'd have to be able to store the liquids for months at a time till the weather was right - and that just isn't feasible. So, instead, we are going to use reverse osmosis for a 24 hour treatment and inject it back into the ground next to the Borough Water Authority wells.

There is some middle ground between the Ganges River and the complete recycling a space station would need, but the EPA is working toward the environmentalists dream of forcing us to only use what we can reuse locally. That's because of the eco-radicals that fill the top jobs there, who think the US should be put back in it's pre-Columbian state...