British public advised to be 'less squeamish' about drinking recycled sewage

[rangerrebew]

British public advised to be 'less squeamish' about drinking recycled sewage
 
By Ian Miles Cheong | August 29, 2022 | News
 
 
Brits are being told to suck it up, and that they need to be “less squeamish” about drinking recycled sewage in the face of climate change.

The head of Britain’s Environment Agency wrote in the Sunday Times a variety of measures that the government, water companies, and regular people need to take to avoid droughts – which are predicted to happen in the future.

With all the ongoing shortages, it’s no surprise that water, too, is on the table.

“Part of the solution will be to reprocess the water that results from sewage treatment and turn it back into drinking water – perfectly safe and healthy, but not something many people fancy,” said Sir James Bevan.

https://www.rebelnews.com/british_public_advised_to_be_less_squeamish_about_drinking_recycled_sewage

[catfish1957]

Impeccably timed article considering the events of the day.

[GtHawk]

They have been pumping purified waste water back into the aquifer for years here in OC(always hated when nitwits said the OC). Something the democrats haven't been able to cock up yet!

https://www.ocsan.gov/residents/construction-program/current-construction/gwrs-final-expansion

https://www.epa.gov/wifia/fountain-valley-groundwater-replenishment-system-final-expansion

[Cyber Liberty]

Impeccably timed article considering the events of the day.

A 70-year Reigning Monarch dies while the Government tell the peasants to literally drink shit.

[Kamaji]

If sewage water is properly treated, it becomes simple H2O again and should be perfectly potable.

[catfish1957]

If sewage water is properly treated, it becomes simple H2O again and should be perfectly potable.

You first....   

[berdie]

If sewage water is properly treated, it becomes simple H2O again and should be perfectly potable.

I actually thought that was what happened here.

[Kamaji]

You first....   

I don't have a problem with it if I know that I can trust the treatment plants.  I would not trust Flint, MI, but I would in the locality where I live.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, during the Dukakis junta, couldn't even clean the sewage before they dumped it into Boston Harbor.

Why would I trust them to clean it before they put it back into the drinking water?

[catfish1957]

I don't have a problem with it if I know that I can trust the treatment plants.  I would not trust Flint, MI, but I would in the locality where I live.

I used to inspect these plants with the Dept. Health right out of college.  FYI, their cholorination systems are not fallable. and can be subject to pluggage, dips, and malfunctions.

I prefer my potable water from ground water.  That is the safest

[Smokin Joe]

I actually thought that was what happened here.

Anyone who lives along the Colorado River and gets their water from it is already drinking the effluent from upstream towns, after it has been treated, of course.

Distill the water from a cesspool, and you have water. Drinkable, pure.
Nature does this through evaporation and rain.
It isn't the source (likely all the water on the planet has been through some critter or another at one time or another), it is the treatment.

[Kamaji]

Anyone who lives along the Colorado River and gets their water from it is already drinking the effluent from upstream towns, after it has been treated, of course.

Distill the water from a cesspool, and you have water. Drinkable, pure.
Nature does this through evaporation and rain.
It isn't the source (likely all the water on the planet has been through some critter or another at one time or another), it is the treatment.

[catfish1957]

Anyone who lives along the Colorado River and gets their water from it is already drinking the effluent from upstream towns, after it has been treated, of course.

Distill the water from a cesspool, and you have water. Drinkable, pure.
Nature does this through evaporation and rain.
It isn't the source (likely all the water on the planet has been through some critter or another at one time or another), it is the treatment.

True, but like I stated earlier, ground water is the least soiled and safest of the potable water sources.  Realize that re-treated waters more likely  have inerts like herbicides,  pesticides, and other complex multi-chain phenyl organics that that are not easily treated with conventional treament methods.

That is why my preference is ground water, and I actually feel better about my own ground water well, than I do municpalities that take from rivers and resovoirs. 

[Smokin Joe]

True, but like I stated earlier, ground water is the least soiled and safest of the potable water sources.  Realize that re-treated waters more likely  have inerts like herbicides,  pesticides, and other complex multi-chain phenyl organics that that are not easily treated with conventional treament methods.

That is why my preference is ground water, and I actually feel better about my own ground water well, than I do municpalities that take from rivers and resovoirs.

Given a choice, I drink distilled water.

[catfish1957]

Given a choice, I drink distilled water.

That's the absolute safe choice, if you don't care about aesthetics.  I love the taste of my 450 foot ground water well, though by law, I have to be plumbed to my municipal potable water supply.

Only problem with my well, is that if really wanted to drink from it consistently, I have to periodically empy and flush the tank of it's rusty taste.  So sadly, it is used mostly for watering the lawn, and my wife's gardens.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Given a choice, I drink distilled water.

Distilled water will make you lose electrolytes. Honestly tap water is great in most places.

[catfish1957]

Distilled water will make you lose electrolytes. Honestly tap water is great in most places.

[Fishrrman]

Smokin' Joe opined:
"Given a choice, I drink distilled water."

... and only "pure grain" alcohol, as well?
(apologies to Mr. Kubrick)

[Gefn]

Astronauts drink urine recycled water….
But I think I’d prefer Brawndo

[Smokin Joe]

Distilled water will make you lose electrolytes. Honestly tap water is great in most places.

We started drinking distilled water years ago, when we found the tap water (sourced from the upper Missouri River) smelled muddy in the spring. Filters did not remove that odor.
Spring runoff (with some flooding upstream) means a likelihood of herbicides or other leachates from the vast amount of farmland in the bottoms, and we took the muddy odor as sufficient cause to avoid the water--especially raising a couple of very young grand children at the time. I also found distilled water makes the very best and most consistent coffee, a major beverage in my home. As for electrolytes, I have used and consumed plenty of salt over the years, and have suffered no ill effects, so I see the distilled water as offsetting my culinary habits to some degree. My electrolytes come out normal when tested.

[Smokin Joe]

Smokin' Joe opined:
"Given a choice, I drink distilled water."

... and only "pure grain" alcohol, as well?
(apologies to Mr. Kubrick)

I discovered that ethanol, without strict controls on quantity, (which I found difficult to impose), makes me loquacious, obnoxious, and occasionally combative, and have avoided it for the last 33 years. There was a time when I consumed everything from homemade beer to everclear, at times to the dismay of those around me.