Would you drink waste water?

[Jhyler12]

Would you drink purified wastewater? I know its clean but just the thought of it is gross. Im sure most have heard this is how West Texas is having to deal with a water shortage problem.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-10/us/texas.desperate.to.drink_1_drinking-water-water-reclamation-project-water-reclamation?_s=PM:US

http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_9e397a9a-c3a4-11e0-bd64-001cc4c03286.html

[Jase]

you're already drinking it, sort of.

[Jhyler12]

you're already drinking it, sort of.

Yeah, to a point...

[GritsRgreat]

no probs

[Jhyler12]

no probs

I knew it was coming!

[blackcatgrowl]

If you live in a major metropolitan city, drink bottled water, or drink soft drinks bottled in a major city, chances are, you are drinking recycled waste water.

[mmmbeans]

where do people think water comes from?

[Epistaxis]

I'd be more worried about having no water at all with the way things are going in Tejas.

[Jase]

the only concern I would have is the lack of dilution effect that comes from putting the wastewater back into the stream of river. Trace amounts of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals not affected by normal water treatment processes would eventually build up to... not trace amounts.

Like birth control pills.

Imagine if all of west texas was sterile.

Now stop smirking about cowboys fans dying off.

[88 Bronco]

you're already drinking it, sort of.

If you live in a major metropolitan city, drink bottled water, or drink soft drinks bottled in a major city, chances are, you are drinking recycled waste water.

the only concern I would have is the lack of dilution effect that comes from putting the wastewater back into the stream of river. Trace amounts of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals not affected by normal water treatment processes would eventually build up to... not trace amounts.

Like birth control pills.

Imagine if all of west texas was sterile.

Now stop smirking about cowboys fans dying off.

I work at a waste water treatment plant. All of these points are valid. Some people have done tests on waste water to determine what kind of narcotics the locals are using.

[blackcatgrowl]

You know... Dasani... the bottled water?

Its clean water that is pumped in from waste treatment plants that is further treated.

For reals.

[Jase]

I thought it was tap water that they ran through the reverse osmosis systems to get bottled water.

WWTP effluent doesn't seem legal to pipe/transport

[Razzy]

You already do.

[Happy Panther]

Waste water means it has poop in it, right??