> Recycled water, including purified effluent, offers a cheaper source than desalination, but many governments are reluctant to embrace this. Purified effluent

> Recycled water, including purified effluent, offers a cheaper source than desalination, but many governments are reluctant to embrace this. Purified effluent is used for drinking in Singapore and Namibia, but that would be a hard sell here. I don't get this. If it's been cleaned thoroughly, why not drink it? And if it hasn't, how can we discharge it into streams in good conscience?