Recycled water for drinking: for or against? (1 Viewer)

[Kwayera]

Are you for or against the use of recycled sewerage water for drinking water? Or, as grey water? Why/why not?

(Grey water usually refers to water for all other uses than drinking - garden irrigation, washing machines, toilets, etc.)

 

[GUSSSSSSSSSSSSS]

lol yes.

that is all!

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

You'd have to be pretty out of the loop to say you'd be against it imo

 

[Graney]

I also watch catalyst.

People are repulsed by the idea that something they are consuming has directly been through another persons digestive system. It's a general squeamish factor that's holding the technology back. People don't understand or respect the idea that you can break down and separate waste water to it's individual compounds, that there'll be no attached 'yuck' factor left after the water treatment.

I was interested however to see on catalyst the interview with that dissenting professor who had concerns about safety. He did say that it was not an area he had personally researched however...

I think, like any technology, there is an inherent risk. Things constantly go wrong. Sydney's water was famously poisoned for a good period of the 90's. The important thing is to rationally assess the risk, and act appropriately.

What is the worst case scenario of a serious pathogen in the water supply, and what is the risk of this occurring? I suspect it's spectacularly low.

 

[Graney]

You'd have to be pretty out of the loop to say you'd be against it imo

Toowoomba knocks back recycled water plan

Voters in Queensland's largest inland city of Toowoomba have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to add recycled effluent to the city's water supply.
Toowoomba residents were asked to approve a plan to draw 25 per cent of the city's water from recycled effluent.

More than 62 per cent of voters said no to the idea in a referendum today.
Toowoomba's Mayor Di Thorley has tonight rejected calls for her to resign over the issue and is calling on Queensland Premier Peter Beattie to help resolve the city's water crisis.

Cr Thorley conceded defeat earlier tonight.
"It looks like the vote has gone down about 60-40," she said.
"At the end of the day, we still don't have a water project."

Lyle Shelton is one of three councillors who campaigned against the proposal and is encouraged by the early result.

"That's probably about what the 'no' case was expecting," he said.
He says he is confident a new solution to the city's water shortage can be found.


Toowoomba knocks back recycled water plan. 29/07/2006. ABC News Online

 

[x.christina]

For it.

 

[Riet]

I only drink water that has never been used before. Oh wait.

 

[x.christina]

All water is recycled.

Fuck I hate people.

Another example of why democracy doesn't work.

Whatever is in your signature is seriously the cutest thing I have ever seen

 

[Kwayera]

Whatever is in your signature is seriously the cutest thing I have ever seen

It's a baby Giant Panda.

 

[x.christina]

It's a baby Giant Panda.

Thanks. Wow its cute.
I want one.

 

[Pacchiru]

whats that thing it's hugging?

 

[Kwayera]

whats that thing it's hugging?

Someone's gloved finger, I assume.

 

[x.christina]

whats that thing it's hugging?

I'm pretty sure its a blanket...
Then again.

 

[Riet]

IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME WAY WE COULD USE THE POWER OF THE SUN TO DISTILL WATER AND DELIVER IT TO A PLACE WHERE WE COULD STORE AND THEN RE USE IT.
lolwut

 

[Kwayera]

Have a look at your own fingers.

There's no way its that small.

I think its just a pillow.

They are really really small at birth, and weigh only 90 to 130 grams.

 

[mikael.cfc]

for it, water that comes out of your taps is recycled anywayz

 

[rant]

trick question lololololol

 

[boris]

We are in the process of getting $4million of the gov from their stimulus shit.

step 1: get moneys
step 2: build treatmenter to treat waste water and sewerage treatment plant
step 3: pull a mad retic system in our stormwater pipez to pipe the treated water to sportsground and racecourses and other assorted public facilities where we can water shit because people dont want to drink it.
step 4: ?????
step 5: profit


yeah i made the prelim design eh

 

[love.is.around]

At least Australia's water is better than Africa's

 

[JonathanM]

At least Australia's water is better than Africa's

I'll second that. I went to South Africa just over a year ago, no one there drinks the tap water, they all drink spring water or sparkling water. Went to a few restaurants and usually asked for plain tap water - they looked at me like I was crazy.

Recycled water doesn't taste as good as what we currently have in Melbourne, you can definitely taste the chlorine. I have nothing against drinking it though