Maybe it time to stop drinking water

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Water companies are considering a system that turns sewage into drinking water for households in a bid to tackle future water shortages.

Water companies in the UK that could trial the system include Thames Water, Affinity Water and Southern Water.
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I thought drinking water had already been through people multiple times already.

It’ll be treated and cleaned. What’s the issue here?
 
Feek said:
I thought drinking water had already been through people multiple times already.

It’ll be treated and cleaned. What’s the issue here?
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yea filtered by the earth.

I wouldn't trust any of the water companies when it comes to treated sewage directly entering the water supply lines....
look how they all skimp on costs, do the bare minimum and dump in the sea/rivers because it's cheaper than building temporary storage.

you really trust them to filter water 100%? what if they can get away with 95% and a few people get dheli belly or whatever.... if it saves a few million and they can get away with a small fine or whatever you know they would just do it.


before anyone comes in with "but nasa filters pee etc" yea and I'm sure to a ridiculously high standard with nothing left to chance to save on costs...
 
Semple said:
I always thought they treated sewage water and it ended up back into the normal water supply.
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As far i know it treated and then piped into the ocean

The sewage pipe work and clean water pipe work is completely different pipe works so i can't see how they could do this even if they wanted to :confused:
 
chaparral said:
As far i know it treated and then piped into the ocean

The sewage pipe work and clean water pipe work is completely different pipe works so i can't see how they could do this even if they wanted to :confused:
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Poo water comes in the a treatment plant and leaves via a different pipe once de-poo’d. Dead simple.
 
arknor said:
yea filtered by the earth.

I wouldn't trust any of the water companies when it comes to treated sewage directly entering the water supply lines....
look how they all skimp on costs, do the bare minimum and dump in the sea/rivers because it's cheaper than building temporary storage.

you really trust them to filter water 100%? what if they can get away with 95% and a few people get dheli belly or whatever.... if it saves a few million and they can get away with a small fine or whatever you know they would just do it.


before anyone comes in with "but nasa filters pee etc" yea and I'm sure to a ridiculously high standard with nothing left to chance to save on costs...
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The water you drink already needs to reach a set standard and is closely monitored and treated to meet that standard.

Water based bugs are horrendous and I don't think they could get a way with poisoning the water supply of the general public.

Regarding the topic at hand, why have the chosen this method over desalination plants? We are an island nation (though we lack cheap energy).
 
Chuk_Chuk said:
The water you drink already needs to reach a set standard and is closely monitored and treated to meet that standard.

Water based bugs are horrendous and I don't think they could get a way with poisoning the water supply of the general public.

Regarding the topic at hand, why have the chosen this method over desalination plants? We are an island nation (though we lack cheap energy).
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is it because its cheaper than building more reservoirs or increasing the depth of the ones we already have
 
The local farms have been spraying human **** over the fields for years and apart from the odd bit of sweetcorn in the carrots, it has not been a problem.

Was trying to find the Grand Designs episode where a system of lakes, gravel and reeds meant that the waste was always being recycled.
 
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