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What’s in your drinking water? If you live in one of these states, it might soon be recycled sewage
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Posted on 08/19/2022 9:45:50 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

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What’s in your drinking water? If you live in one of these states, it might soon be recycled sewage

Published Fri, Aug 19 202212:12 PM EDT

Annika Kim Constantino@ANNIKAKIMC

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The idea of drinking water that was recently sewage swirling down your toilet bowl, shower drain, or kitchen sink may sound pretty icky. But experts say it’s actually nothing to be squeamish about — and it might be coming to your state and city soon.

It’s a water recycling method known as direct potable reuse, or DPR, which sends highly treated sewage water almost directly to a drinking water system for distribution to communities. It’s legal in Texas, and legal on a case-by-case basis in Arizona. Multiple other states are in the process of formulating regulations to legalize it too, including California, Colorado, and Florida.

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To: Red in Blue PA

And now I know why everyone in Florida drinks bottled water.


21 posted on 08/19/2022 10:01:40 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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To: Palio di Siena

Ditto.


22 posted on 08/19/2022 10:01:40 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Red in Blue PA

good for washing down those bugs they want us to eat


23 posted on 08/19/2022 10:06:07 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Red in Blue PA

My city made a priority to make clean water.
It has made the water so clean that what goes back into the river is basically bottled water.

https://www.epcor.com/products-services/water/water-quality/Pages/clean-and-safe-tap-water.aspx


24 posted on 08/19/2022 10:07:26 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: Leaning Right

> This 39-year-old makes $160K/month in passive income—a look at his typical day:... <

From the thrust of the article I’m guessing he recycles sewage. But I’m not quite sure how he could make so much money at it.

Working at MSNBC?


25 posted on 08/19/2022 10:10:00 AM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Another hysteria article like those about Covid.

Animals urinate and defecate directly into water supplies.
Dead bodies are in water supplies.
Rotting plant, animal and other matter are in water supplies.

That is why water systems filter, treat and test the water before sending it to you.

There are more medical issues created by well water than by public water systems.


26 posted on 08/19/2022 10:10:20 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Can I poo you a glass of water?


27 posted on 08/19/2022 10:11:12 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Red in Blue PA

28 posted on 08/19/2022 10:13:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Multiple other states are in the process of formulating regulations to legalize it too, including California, Colorado, and Florida.

Great! Maybe that'll finally convince wifey that we need to get out of Hellholefornia as soon as possible!

29 posted on 08/19/2022 10:13:43 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: dragonblustar

Yeah, because the bottling plants get their water from a magic source that not associated with the city water system.


30 posted on 08/19/2022 10:15:58 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red in Blue PA

Not to mention all the drug by-products that are now also in a lot of the water supply.


31 posted on 08/19/2022 10:17:24 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Palio di Siena

“I have a well.”
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So do I. And I’m keeping it.


32 posted on 08/19/2022 10:17:28 AM PDT by fatboy
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To: Red in Blue PA

I’ve used gray water in my irrigation system for over 20 years... Yard looks great. But there’s not even enough of it for the city to sell it to everyone who wants it. Those of us who signed up early and paid the extra fee to hook it into our systems lucked out.

It doesn’t make sense to pay for the extra processing to put in into droning water when there’s plenty of people lined up to use it outside and there’s a shortage.


33 posted on 08/19/2022 10:22:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (The “threat to democracy” is shorthand for a threat to Democrats. -- Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Red in Blue PA

No bottled water for congress, just regular poo water!


34 posted on 08/19/2022 10:22:09 AM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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To: Red in Blue PA

“What’s in your drinking water? If you live in one of these states, it might soon be recycled sewage”

soon? much of the east coast “potable” water has been recycled sewage for at least at half a century ...

a friend from high-school built a wholesale tropical fish business in Charlotte during the 1980’s that had hundreds of fish tanks in a warehouse connected with a sophisticated centralized water purification and circulation system that he also built ... the first time he tested the muni tap water he starts with, he was shocked with the results and told me, “Why this is nothing more than recycled sewage!” and he was correct.

low-lying east coast cities like Charlotte draw their water from intakes in slowly moving rivers upstream of the cities and discharge their treated effluent downstream into those same rivers ... each city along the river fall rinses and repeats ...

i’ve never drunk tap water since then, first drinking spring water delivered in 5-gallon jugs and eventually moving to a 6-stage undersink RO system ...

btw, even much of the so-called “pure” rocky mountain water, once it enters the Front Range, travels through rivers and reservoirs that receive irrigation discharge from fields sprayed with fertilizer and other ag chemicals ...


35 posted on 08/19/2022 10:23:38 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: GingisK; dragonblustar

“Yeah, because the bottling plants get their water from a magic source that not associated with the city water system.”

wrong ... they force tap water through an Reverse Osmosis filter whose pores are so small that even dissolved mineral ions are filtered out ... other chemicals, germs and viruses are too large to pass though as well ... and then the water is blasted with UV light as a final sterilization step ...


36 posted on 08/19/2022 10:28:48 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: catnipman

That might just be what they want you to believe. Pictures or it doesn’t happen.


37 posted on 08/19/2022 10:32:07 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red in Blue PA

Fish and frogs don’t have toilets and are forced to poop and pee in the water they live in. Kind of like a giant San Francisco.


38 posted on 08/19/2022 10:32:45 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Where does the recycled water from your local sewage treatment plant get dumped?


39 posted on 08/19/2022 10:35:05 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: Leaning Right

Haha. There should be a way to reference an article without all the sidebars of “trending” nonsense. I did follow one. it was bee ess.


40 posted on 08/19/2022 10:38:17 AM PDT by Bethaneidh
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