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- meshman, on 01/02/2008, -2/+39If you don't like the O.C. sewage then change the channel. It works for me.
- SwissCamel, on 01/02/2008, -10/+42Marissa and Summer could ***** in my mouth any day.
- pktgumby, on 01/02/2008, -0/+28Just out of curiosity, do you think the water you currently drink was magically "invented" right before you consumed it? Or, is it possible that maybe...just maybe the water you drink has already been recycled several times over?
- PinkFloydFan, on 01/02/2008, -2/+24Hate to break it to you, but you'll have a tough time drinking any glass of water without having at least some of it passed through a living organism at some point. For all you know that water you're drinking could be a combination of formerly dinosaur, monkey, human, and elephant piss. Now it's just water.
Also, filtration into underground injection is essentially a huge septic system. Yeah, septic systems inject your sewage into the soils where microbes clean it naturally. Natures a b*tch! - Berkana, on 01/02/2008, -1/+21Ah, light beer comes full circle.
- swordedge, on 01/02/2008, -0/+15using the ground to filter water, that is how nature does it. So long as the water supply is sufficient distance from the source of the *****...
- inactive, on 01/02/2008, -0/+13Rich people piss champagne and poop caviar. That water will be better than Evian.
- pktgumby, on 01/02/2008, -2/+14Thanks to the genius who decided to coin this "Toilet to Tap", along with common ignorance, this program has been a PR disaster. Fortunately, the program was still able to be successfully implemented.
Some people just can't understand the concept that water has been recycled naturally for millions of years. - Skooma714, on 01/02/2008, -1/+11Meh. The water you drink and bathe in was probably several creature's piss at one point or another.
- CeeJayDK, on 01/03/2008, -0/+82 girls 1 swisscamel ?
- BossKey, on 01/02/2008, -0/+7There was a sign at a local bar, spanning the wall above all the urinals in the men's room. It says:
"You can never buy a beer, you can only rent it." - macslut, on 01/02/2008, -0/+7This is kinda cool. If it catches on, you could say that affluent effluent is influential.
- pktgumby, on 01/02/2008, -1/+7Good thing Jesus has his own bottling plant and is constantly pumping out new water that hasn't been recycled for millions of years. It'd be a shame if that bottled water of yours was actually recycled as well. Surely that can't be possible, could it?
- bamafun, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4I understand that but I guess I just don't want to know the sewer details - I just want it clean enough to drink lol
- MioTheGreat, on 01/02/2008, -1/+5I manufacture all of my drinking water by burning Hydrogen.
- pktgumby, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Well, after reading his comment, kinda sounds like he has been here. Oh, that and the fact that his name is NEWPORTBEACHGUY!!!
- dotlizard, on 01/02/2008, -1/+4and the ocean is ALL fish piss. there isn't one molecule of it that hasn't passed through a fish at one point. and come to think about it, i dare you to find any molecule anywhere in the biosphere which hasn't, at one point, passed through the digestive tract of some life form somewhere. everything, in other words, is *****.
and i'm fine with that, really. - calista17, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3water? like from the toilet?
- Dohko_Xar, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3As much as I disgust that serie, I'm gonna digg you up!
- TurboBeard, on 01/02/2008, -1/+4One mans diarrhea is another mans water... :/
- MacEnvy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Yeah, I bet groundwater could NEVER travel 20 whole miles.
/facepalm - Lionhart, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2While it might be a challenge to overcome the psychological effect of drinking treated human waste.. it is still being made into clean water that passes standard. And the fact is that tap water standards are more rigorous than even bottled water standards. If theres anything you should really worry about drinking, it is bottled water which has lower standards than the result of treated sewage. Plus it costs an absurd amount and wreaks havoc on the environment because of the damn bottles.
- indiepenguins, on 01/03/2008, -1/+3"Don't call it that"
Arrested Development anyone? - fsjenkins2000, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2guess what you are drinking the same water that your great great great great grandfather pissed out get over it. your probably drinking some Dino pee in there somewhere.
- blitzer, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Hot Carl?
- brianbb98, on 01/02/2008, -1/+3thats dirty...
i like how you think! - lukas88, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2ouch, I was, but good on you for still picking up on it
- StGhurka, on 01/02/2008, -1/+320 miles east of the OC is riverside county.
I'll take the *****, thanks. - crazzy88ss, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Why would sewage want to drink water?
- Fordi, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2I'm sorry, they've been doing this in Philadelphia since the 70's. I don't know what's supposed to be new about it.
- bluthng, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2That was the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
- DestroyFascism, on 01/02/2008, -1/+3A decently filtered system using sand filtration through a man made swamp can remove all the dissolved solids and then some. Tests in West Australia have proven how sand filtration can do this in a very short space. Raw sewerage and acid water cleaned up so well the company is now selling leeched Acid water back to the farmers it came from....For next to zero running costs....Nature has already given us the examples for this. Follow its guiding rules and you can do no wrong!
- Fordi, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2"As humans pee the chemicals the water is recycled but a portion of the chemicals remain. It all adds each recycle."
Let's do a little math, shall we?
Say 50% of injested hormonal contaminants reappear in your urine, and 95% of that is filtered out, that means that the dose in your next batch of water is 2.5% of the original, per cycle. Now, say that 33% of the population (2/3rds of women) are on birth control pills. Given the 64 ounces (1800 ml) rule, fifo, and normal daily doses (35mcg for 25/30 women, or an average of 29mcg/1800ml) you have a continuous contamination of 0.0000005%, meaning that your tap water would have a resulting contamination of 0.00000001%, or 0.03 mcg / 8oz.
That's not just low dosage, it's insignificant dosage. Especially since municipal water filtration has shown hormonal filtration well over 99.9% clean, and well over 80% of hormonal birth control is metabolized. I was being really nice with that 50%/95%, just to have *something* to do math with.
If you're curious, the presence in tap water with the right numbers is 240 pg, 0.00024 mcg, or 1/150,000 of a normal dose. - jaybol, on 01/06/2008, -0/+1this is orange county california that they are referring to...i live here and need a better brita water filter now
- shaka776, on 01/02/2008, -5/+6Wow... the people from O.C. always thought their stuff didn't stink... guess they showed us...
- kd1s, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I say we take it a bit further. How about requiring grey water recycling in all newly constructed homes. And grant incentives for people to implement said systems.
Take the water output from sinks and appliances and route through basic sludge and treatment and re-use for outdoor watering and toilet flushing. That'd cut about a third of the water usage and sewage generation. - Fordi, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1LOLZ@U
No, seriously. Bottled water is dirtier than tap. Don't believe me? Well, I've got this marketer here with some filtered ***** to sell you. - marx2k, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Its the circle of life Simba
- Fordi, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1No; if the case werethat 'fresh' (read: rain) water wweent to the highest class, and treated water went to the lowest class, the lowest class would have the highest quality water.
Mind you, as the cost of treating water is relatively high, it's economically infeasible anyway. Mind you, it can be pretty cost-effective if you're using a FOX system.
What lame-ass anime was that? - Fordi, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Salt content; since salt isn't a macromolecule, but a pair of ions dissolved in water, it doesn't get filtered out by soil. The resulting water is far too salty for most land-based plantlife to grow in, and is certainly not potable.
Mind you, seawater has enough in the way of organic matter to use a long-barrel facilitated oxidation still (free electricity + distilled water FTW!). - BarnabyJones, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Groooooossss! Wanna go to starbucks?
- grakker, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Somehow, being born in, and now living in, Newport Beach, I doubt you are the one rubbing. Those people don't know digg.
- BigDigg55, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Finally peanut flavored water.
- CluelessTroll, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1In Florida, sewage water has been treated for drinking purposes...for years.
- solonGFX, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1.... we're gonna need a lot more cups..
- grakker, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Why would you rather drink water that they bottled from the tap?
- grakker, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1No.
- grakker, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I kind of cut back surfing in OC the last few years. I've been much healthier since.
- AngryPunk, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I live around the corner from this plant, everyone around here is pretty stoked on it, except for all the traffic the construction has been causing all over the place.
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