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Its not irrational. I know for a fact that the sun only evaporates the water and leaves the crap behind. Its a process that has been happening for a very long

Its not irrational. I know for a fact that the sun only evaporates the water and leaves the crap behind. Its a process that has been happening for a very long time. And we all know how perfect industrial processes are, especially when managed by the government. The sewer water isn't THAT MUCH cheaper than regular water. So I'd prefer that the experiment be run on someone other than me. If it is cheaper and a city wants cheaper water, let them enjoy it. We should be charging market prices to all users. Then if this actually made economic sense, it would be adopted.

pavel_lishin 15y ago
> I know for a fact that the sun only evaporates the water and leaves the crap behind. How is that relevant?
daeken 15y ago
This would make some semblance of sense if it weren't for two things: 1) You're not drinking rainwater, I assure you. 2) Sure, the sun evaporates water, and that forms into clouds, and then it rains. Except that things in the atmosphere can taint that rain; this is most noticeable in the form of acid rain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain There's absolutely no reason to believe that treated sewer water is any less safe than the water that's sitting in your reservoir at all.
InclinedPlane 15y ago
And then that water in the clouds falls as snow and rain and then feeds into rivers and reservoirs where fish, insects, deer, ducks, beavers, bears, bird, etc. urinate, defecate, bleed, and die into it. That's why pure unfiltered river water doesn't feed directly to a municipal water supply and is filtered and treated first.
- stretchwithme 15y ago
  Yes, that's true. I guess I don't trust the municipal water system to do the job. I also don't see how they can filter out all the drugs and salt that sewage water currently contains and is being released into the environment. These things are just going to accumulate. Or is there new invention I'm not aware of? Granted, that's not the argument I originally stated but its definitely a question. If you're aware familiar with the Colorado River, you may know that the water gets saltier and saltier as it is taken out, run through the land and drains back into it. Without any intervention, its pretty brackish by the time it gets to Mexico. Running the same water through humanity over and over again is bound to have a similar problem.
  - InclinedPlane 15y ago
    The water of the Mississippi river gets filtered and processed and drunk by the residents of Minneapolis, then their waste water gets dumped into the river only to be taken up and processed by St. Louis who also dump their waste water back into the river only to later run out of the taps of the residents of New Orleans.
    - stretchwithme 15y ago
      Thats traveling with a whole lot of other water not the same water all of the time. And that's only 3 recycles not an endless number of recycles.

pavel_lishin 15y ago

> I know for a fact that the sun only evaporates the water and leaves the crap behind. How is that relevant?

daeken 15y ago

This would make some semblance of sense if it weren't for two things: 1) You're not drinking rainwater, I assure you. 2) Sure, the sun evaporates water, and that forms into clouds, and then it rains. Except that things in the atmosphere can taint that rain; this is most noticeable in the form of acid rain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain There's absolutely no reason to believe that treated sewer water is any less safe than the water that's sitting in your reservoir at all.

InclinedPlane 15y ago

And then that water in the clouds falls as snow and rain and then feeds into rivers and reservoirs where fish, insects, deer, ducks, beavers, bears, bird, etc. urinate, defecate, bleed, and die into it. That's why pure unfiltered river water doesn't feed directly to a municipal water supply and is filtered and treated first.

stretchwithme 15y ago
Yes, that's true. I guess I don't trust the municipal water system to do the job. I also don't see how they can filter out all the drugs and salt that sewage water currently contains and is being released into the environment. These things are just going to accumulate. Or is there new invention I'm not aware of? Granted, that's not the argument I originally stated but its definitely a question. If you're aware familiar with the Colorado River, you may know that the water gets saltier and saltier as it is taken out, run through the land and drains back into it. Without any intervention, its pretty brackish by the time it gets to Mexico. Running the same water through humanity over and over again is bound to have a similar problem.
- InclinedPlane 15y ago
  The water of the Mississippi river gets filtered and processed and drunk by the residents of Minneapolis, then their waste water gets dumped into the river only to be taken up and processed by St. Louis who also dump their waste water back into the river only to later run out of the taps of the residents of New Orleans.
  - stretchwithme 15y ago
    Thats traveling with a whole lot of other water not the same water all of the time. And that's only 3 recycles not an endless number of recycles.