I agree with Thorned Rose. If I didn't know the water I was drinking came from the sewer, I wouldn't mind, as long as I can't taste any difference.

In response to arnz, Toowoomba is in Queensland, Australia and their Dams are below 20% capacity. At the moment they have Level 5 Water Restrictions, 100% prohibiting the watering of plants using water direct from the tap.

Meanwhile, I'm in a different state - New South Wales, and our dams are at around 30% capacity. Our Government is thinking of building a desalination plant to desalinate the water from the sea for drinking purposes. I reckon this would probably be slightly better than sewer water. At least it sounds better.

I was also thinking, if you are repulsed by sewer water, why don't you install water filters? The latest reverse osmosis models are incredibly good.

For those who haven't heard of reverse osmosis:



They'll set you back at ooohh....US$250, or approximately AU$400

Not a bad price to pay if your other option is to dehydrate yourself through a combination of vomiting and unwillingness to drink.

A recycled sewerage plant is being proposed about 20kms from where I live. But somehow I doubt they'll give THAT to us as drinking water. They never mentioned it...

 

 

 

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Hi,

I personally think that it is ok for us to drink recycled water as we save a lot of fresh pure water and the the products remaing from the purification can too be recycled.
I thought it is ok for we are either way drinking polluted water as most of the water bodies are polluted due to chemicals and acid rains and so on.

So i dont see the big deal in drinking it and if a particular batch of recycled water is unsafe then you can always find another safer use for it.
Nowadays we cannot be picky about things as the resources are fast depleting due to pollution,wastage and over population.

So in short I think that it is a better option to recycle all the resources we have to save something for the future ahead.

Cheers,
This was just an opinion.

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From The Foundation of Recycled Water (FRW) I insisted on toowoomba drinking recycled water, and luckily they said no. as after doing more tests after the referendum it was found that a high rate of potassium was found. meaning colossal death could of been prompt.

a death toll of nearly all of toowoomba could of been exterminated. so if you are against toowoomba saying no, think again.

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Drinkable Recycled Sewerage Water? - Personally, no way... but what are your thoughts? - (News: Courier Mai
Drinkable Recycled Sewerage Water?

Hi,
I'm doing a project on recycled water so if anyone has some tips/info please let me know!

Thanks

-reply by alec

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You know this, right? The thingy where babies and old people poops. Can you drink water from it? Put your food in it? It hasnt used yet.

Technology is here. So if you trust your town council that they wont take bribes to look over facility's problems, go for it. But then again... Even dam water, which you may call clean, goes treament before pumpimg to system. They can too take bribes, OMG!!!

By the way, Im studying environment engineering.

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Recycled water?
Drinkable Recycled Sewerage Water?

IT IS DANGEROUS AND DISGUSTING! WHO CARES IF IT IS GOING TO BE "POOIFIED". I AM WORRIED ABOUT THE CHEMICALS PLACED IN THE WATER! THAT IS THE REAL DANGER! LEAVE IT TO THE BIG COMPANIES TO USE THE RECYCLED WATER, INSTEAD OF OUR FRESH WATER! THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE JOKE IF THE GOVERNMENT EXPECTS US TO DRINK POOEY WATER! YUK!

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I'm perfectly aware that the topic was about drinkable recycled wastewater, not "drinking from a potty" Really, it is amazing how people could so easily make horrifyingly inaccurate analogies. As said countless times before, water always undergoes treatment whether it's "raw" water from nature or sewage fluids.

Personally, I'd like to stick to the issue and consider the possibility of recycling sewage water. If we always considered politics and corruption, or, worse, assumed such circumstances, we'll never get anywhere and we probably won't be able to send people to space.



I am sure that our friend, "Sally" would not be too elated to know that the water she is drinking has, at the very least, trace amounts of chlorine. Some water distribution facilities also mix fluorine to the water, which is, quite contrary to Ms. Sally's concerns, perfectly safe and harmless.

Y'know what, I think I'm tired of repeating myself so why don't we just go ahead and assume that, the moment we turn our faucets, all the filth and grime of the heathen world will come pouring out? I mean, what part of water treatment is unclear to the people of this planet?

 

 

 

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Ewwwwwwww, I couldnt do it, Im not much of a water drinker anyway, But if the water was recylced sewar water I would drink even less then what i drink now. Bottled water what be what my household would be having. And god only knows where that really comes from.

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salamangkero, couldnt you see that was a example to show people "it's all psychological" That your (not personly you) reasonings not to drink recyleced water is baseless as not drinking from potty.

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