Comments on: Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal? http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/ Think - it ain't illegal yet... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:32:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Scholars and Rogues » The Weekly Carboholic: Stalagmite suggests climate disruption may have changed monsoons http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-58376 Scholars and Rogues » The Weekly Carboholic: Stalagmite suggests climate disruption may have changed monsoons Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:30:49 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-58376 [...] will need to create massive desalinization plants themselves. Orange County’s so-called toilet-to-tap program would help delay the need for such shoreline destroying [...] [...] will need to create massive desalinization plants themselves. Orange County’s so-called toilet-to-tap program would help delay the need for such shoreline destroying [...]

]]> By: Scholars and Rogues » Millions of Americans are drinking water tainted with drugs http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-23155 Scholars and Rogues » Millions of Americans are drinking water tainted with drugs Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:25:19 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-23155 [...] you were grossed out by the generally reasonable idea of drinking recycled sewer water to preserve supplies, you’ll love this–as many as 41 million Americans have been [...] [...] you were grossed out by the generally reasonable idea of drinking recycled sewer water to preserve supplies, you’ll love this–as many as 41 million Americans have been [...]

]]> By: Rufus http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-21941 Rufus Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:44:17 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-21941 Dogs are smart -- they just drink it out of the toilet. Dogs are smart — they just drink it out of the toilet.

]]> By: Gindy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-21425 Gindy Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:38:25 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-21425 We get our water from a spring fed pond. The water is run through an in house filtration system that cost us about $1500.The purification components cost us $200 per year which includes the chemicals and replacement taste and odor filter. That said, our pond is very healthy and home to hundreds of creatures who piss and shit into it every day, all year long. None of us have ever gotten sick from it and it isn't even as filtered as the water OC will get from their plan. What a bunch of ignorant people... We get our water from a spring fed pond. The water is run through an in house filtration system that cost us about $1500.The purification components cost us $200 per year which includes the chemicals and replacement taste and odor filter. That said, our pond is very healthy and home to hundreds of creatures who piss and shit into it every day, all year long.
None of us have ever gotten sick from it and it isn’t even as filtered as the water OC will get from their plan. What a bunch of ignorant people…

]]> By: Lou http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-21065 Lou Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:16:13 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-21065 thank you for this story thank you for this story

]]> By: Brian Angliss http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20996 Brian Angliss Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:48:53 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20996 Denny - I'm sitting here with a Mountain Dew in a #1 plastic cup, iced tea in a Nalgene (lexan) bottle that produces carcinogens, and water in one of my wife's plastic Tupperware cups. All of it is made from tap water, and all of it is in plastic too! Mmmmmm. :) Tune in next week when I up the gross out coefficient of S&R with a description of the efficiency of the human digestive system and why the tropics have the hottest (spiciest) foods in the world. Here's a preview - "yummy roadkill." Denny – I’m sitting here with a Mountain Dew in a #1 plastic cup, iced tea in a Nalgene (lexan) bottle that produces carcinogens, and water in one of my wife’s plastic Tupperware cups. All of it is made from tap water, and all of it is in plastic too! Mmmmmm.

:)

Tune in next week when I up the gross out coefficient of S&R with a description of the efficiency of the human digestive system and why the tropics have the hottest (spiciest) foods in the world. Here’s a preview – “yummy roadkill.”

]]> By: Dr. Denny http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20992 Dr. Denny Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:38:55 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20992 I'm suddenly not very thirsty. :) Thanks for the post, Brian. I’m suddenly not very thirsty. :)

Thanks for the post, Brian.

]]> By: Brian Angliss http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20946 Brian Angliss Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:34:29 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20946 I'm sorry, Jimmy, but I'm not clear on what you're trying to say. You comment could be a response to any number of things in the comments or my original post, so could you clarify please? I’m sorry, Jimmy, but I’m not clear on what you’re trying to say. You comment could be a response to any number of things in the comments or my original post, so could you clarify please?

]]> By: Jimmy L http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20938 Jimmy L Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:18:33 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20938 Would you rather have polluted fish water that has high levels of mercury and other carcinogens and has countless other carp and crap? One word: YES. If you're a drudge fan: <a href="http://www.drudgetracker.com" rel="nofollow">drudgetracker.com</a> Would you rather have polluted fish water that has high levels of mercury and other carcinogens and has countless other carp and crap? One word: YES.

If you’re a drudge fan: drudgetracker.com

]]> By: Thud http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20910 Thud Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:27:49 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20910 Well, I emailed them to see if they could provide more detail. I am guessing that there's an additional benefit to being placed in the aquifer. Another thing that occurred to me after reading the Trib link is they say the purification process leaves the water pretty much distilled and absent some of the minerals that would be replenished by a trip through the aquifer. Also, this water would still have to be treated in order to add flouride. So the expense of injecting into the aquifer and re-processing the water may be outweighed by the convenience of not having to build parallel water-delivery infrastructure. Anyway, if I get an answer from MWDOC then I won't have to speculate. Well, I emailed them to see if they could provide more detail. I am guessing that there’s an additional benefit to being placed in the aquifer.

Another thing that occurred to me after reading the Trib link is they say the purification process leaves the water pretty much distilled and absent some of the minerals that would be replenished by a trip through the aquifer. Also, this water would still have to be treated in order to add flouride. So the expense of injecting into the aquifer and re-processing the water may be outweighed by the convenience of not having to build parallel water-delivery infrastructure.

Anyway, if I get an answer from MWDOC then I won’t have to speculate.

]]> By: www.buzzflash.net http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20883 www.buzzflash.net Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:34:52 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20883 <strong>Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal?...</strong> Orange County is putting reverse-osmosis treated sewer water back into the county's aquifer, and residents are going "Ick!" Their response speaks to ignorance of the fact that nearly every drop of water they've ever drank was once somethin... Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal?…

Orange County is putting reverse-osmosis treated sewer water back into the county’s aquifer, and residents are going "Ick!" Their response speaks to ignorance of the fact that nearly every drop of water they’ve ever drank was once somethin…

]]> By: Brian Angliss http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20803 Brian Angliss Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:44:30 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20803 Thud - If they're working to restore a depleted aquifer, that's a good thing too, and that certainly may be the case. I didn't see anything in the MWDOC website that talked to that, but they may just be behind on updates or I may have just missed it. Thud – If they’re working to restore a depleted aquifer, that’s a good thing too, and that certainly may be the case. I didn’t see anything in the MWDOC website that talked to that, but they may just be behind on updates or I may have just missed it.

]]> By: jacpine savage http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20797 jacpine savage Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:33:19 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20797 What makes me say "ewwww" is the fact that in so many places running short on water, we still insist in bathing our feces in 2.5 gallons of drinking water. Why all the new construction in California and the Southwest over the last ten years hasn't been designed with simple greywater recycling and rain catchment is beyond me. Then again, there's more and more about 'merica that is beyond me, so take my statement with a grain of salt. What makes me say “ewwww” is the fact that in so many places running short on water, we still insist in bathing our feces in 2.5 gallons of drinking water. Why all the new construction in California and the Southwest over the last ten years hasn’t been designed with simple greywater recycling and rain catchment is beyond me. Then again, there’s more and more about ‘merica that is beyond me, so take my statement with a grain of salt.

]]> By: Thud http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20781 Thud Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:52:13 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20781 "So while you can’t set yourself apart from the natural world and the “ickiness” therein, you can drink your sparkling clear sewer water secure in the knowledge that it’s safe to drink." For now. Until they privatize and de-regulate. Is it possible that injecting the water into the aquifer has an environmental effect? I mean, if you take water out of the colorado river and then put it into a mostly closed loop (water treatment plant to homes to sewers to water treatment plant...) then you are sequestering water that other things in that arid landscape would need. Injecting the water into the aquifer might let the rest of the biosphere take it's cut. “So while you can’t set yourself apart from the natural world and the “ickiness” therein, you can drink your sparkling clear sewer water secure in the knowledge that it’s safe to drink.”

For now. Until they privatize and de-regulate.

Is it possible that injecting the water into the aquifer has an environmental effect? I mean, if you take water out of the colorado river and then put it into a mostly closed loop (water treatment plant to homes to sewers to water treatment plant…) then you are sequestering water that other things in that arid landscape would need. Injecting the water into the aquifer might let the rest of the biosphere take it’s cut.

]]> By: Thudfactor » Drinking toilet water http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20779 Thudfactor » Drinking toilet water Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:48:06 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20779 [...] in the process, reduce the water needs of a very arid and highly populated region of the country. [ Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal? [...] [...] in the process, reduce the water needs of a very arid and highly populated region of the country. [ Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal? [...]

]]> By: Euphrosyne http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-20651 Euphrosyne Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:07:49 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/03/would-you-like-some-sparkling-clear-sewer-water-with-your-meal/#comment-20651 Why are they re-injecting? To appease the "ick" sector? What a waste of money and energy. Why are they re-injecting? To appease the “ick” sector? What a waste of money and energy.

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