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Be less squeamish about drinking sewage water, says expert
https://www.bbc.com/ ^ | August 28, 2022 | BBC Staff

Posted on 08/29/2022 1:11:13 AM PDT by Jonty30

People need to be 'less squeamish' about drinking water taken from sewage treatment plants, the head of the Environment Agency has said.

Water companies are planning "toilet-to-tap" systems, also known as water recycling, to turn sewage from lavatories into drinking water by treating it.

By 2030, toilet water could be deposited into rivers near treatment plants so it can be collected and processed as drinking water.

Writing in the Sunday Times, Sir James Bevan said the "unpopular" move would help protect the UK's water supply.

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So, would sewage water make a good pairing with meal worms?
1 posted on 08/29/2022 1:11:13 AM PDT by Jonty30
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Knocks out the crickets before they go down the hatch.


2 posted on 08/29/2022 1:13:22 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Jonty30

The water we all drink has been through sewage treatment plants many times. Hell, the earth is a sewage treatment plant.


3 posted on 08/29/2022 1:20:33 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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It seems the “experts” wants a less efficient method than the hydrological cycle from tap to toilet to tap.


4 posted on 08/29/2022 1:22:52 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want tod watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: Poison Pill

It is diluted though, mixed with other water. We know that the water from waste treatment plants contains lots of pharmaceutical drug residue as the body doesn’t metabolize everything that we eat and lots of it just pass directly out via our waste.

If they were able to mix it with well water in the proper ratio they could get a similar affect but I don’t want to be drinking gender altering chemicals.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20858332/


5 posted on 08/29/2022 1:42:48 AM PDT by dila813
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People need to be ‘less squeamish’ about grinding some of these so-called “experts” into Soylent Green methinks ...

Same for the WEF / Globalists that want to eliminate 95% of the population. We can start with them, LOL.


6 posted on 08/29/2022 1:53:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Absolutely, dining on meal worms and washing it down with sewer water sounds yummy, what could possibly go wrong.

Didn’t we recently learn the polio virus was found in sewer water in New York ??


7 posted on 08/29/2022 1:54:01 AM PDT by srmanuel (C)
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To: Jonty30

If you research eating bugs, you will find they are deficient in a number of important vitamins for people. Further the chitin in their exoskeletons will pose gi tract digestion problems for people.

Thats why they are pushing this. TPTB pushing this know this.


8 posted on 08/29/2022 2:05:07 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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It’s probably why God calls creepy crawlies unclean.
Probably also why the Great Resetters want us to dine on them.


9 posted on 08/29/2022 2:16:40 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want tod watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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Be less squeamish about getting cancer as well.

There’s a reason drinking water and septic tanks/sewage systems are to be separated.


10 posted on 08/29/2022 2:22:40 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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“Water companies are planning “toilet-to-tap” systems, also known as water recycling, to turn sewage from lavatories into drinking water by treating it.”

this is nothing new ... low-lying east coast cities along slow-moving rivers have been doing this for over a half a century ... each city along the river sucks up water upstream and discharges it after use downstream ...


11 posted on 08/29/2022 2:38:35 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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Eat bugs.
Drink sh-t.
Live without fossil fuels.

Welcome to the New Middle Ages.


12 posted on 08/29/2022 2:42:35 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: SaveFerris

And eating insects, what are the preparing us for?


13 posted on 08/29/2022 3:21:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Jonty30

It’s probably why God calls creepy crawlies unclean.

Leviticus 11:22 locusts, crickets and grasshoppers, are listed as clean. John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey


14 posted on 08/29/2022 3:25:39 AM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: Paperpusher

I understand clean animals to be mostly plant-eating animals or insects and fish that either eat plants or eat fish that eat plants.

Unclean animals are animals that are either carnivores, scavangers or naturally disease ridden.


15 posted on 08/29/2022 3:28:14 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want tod watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Massive food starvation; Globally.

War, Famine, Disease and Satan’s anti-messiah

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.


16 posted on 08/29/2022 3:35:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dila813

...like they already do in southern California?. They have been doing that there since ag least the early 70’s.


17 posted on 08/29/2022 3:41:05 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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"...says expert..."

I stopped reading right there.

18 posted on 08/29/2022 3:43:07 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Jonty30

How gauche. Everyone knows sewage water is served with crickets. Acqua Panna is served with meal worms.


19 posted on 08/29/2022 3:46:31 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: D Rider

That is a reason a lot of bottled water drinkers, the most popular is Shasta brand


20 posted on 08/29/2022 3:49:22 AM PDT by dila813
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