As the operator of a water plant, I have no problem with these plans. We’re expected to remove contaminents down to a parts per billion now. Cleaning sewerage is easy in comparison.
contaminant’s, sorry!
So why are we so concerned about the trace amounts of anti-biotics and other drugs found in tap water?
Do you remove prescription drug contaminents?
What about phalates, triclosan, birth control hormones, hormones mimics, and all of that?
Some of those are definitely not being cleared from water supplies at the moment, and some of them are inorganic. Will california environmentalist groups be able to stop these sewer to spigot programs with lawsuits?
Massive infrastructures that feed to many faucets are far more vulnerable to terrorism threats and actions than smaller-scale more localized projects and services, including trucked-in bottled jugs.
The flush toilet itself is grossly obsolete and its continued use adds thousands to the cash price of a new home or other building, due to the sewer infrastructure.
Then there are the hazmat aspects of broken public sewers due to earthquakes, flooded sewers due to floods etc.
Use of composting, chemical or other toilets for ‘black water’ and simple purification of gray water and use for lawns or gardening would be far more appropriate than adding volume that must be removed later, to gravity-flush everything away to never-never land.
The truth is, it’s all a big closed system.
Modern septic tanks still have reason to exist.
Not In My Back Yard? OK, flush it downstream and watch it come out your faucet instead. Your local bureaucrat will be glad to cost-justify it for you.