'Sewer' Water in a Bottle — YUM! [pic]
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- nykat, on 10/22/2007, -15/+2Gross but funny.
- Taber38, on 10/22/2007, -20/+2ok i think i feel sick now
- anjamerret, on 10/22/2007, -14/+8very clever.
- ponstars, on 10/22/2007, -13/+3yummy!!
- Pssdoff, on 10/22/2007, -13/+5Uh oh, I don't think thats a worm in that bottle...
- xquizit, on 10/22/2007, -3/+61100% natural
- DrywallThief, on 10/22/2007, -21/+9http://bancomicsans.com/
- forceflow2, on 10/22/2007, -9/+1This is nothing more than an Outhouse Springs ripoff.
- FishHammer, on 10/22/2007, -12/+61As gross as that sounds, the water you drink from your tap is exactly this. Processed sewer water. Ignorance is bliss :)
- D3koy, on 10/21/2007, -2/+20It's not ignorance: "It was then processed using state-of-the-art screening, grit removal, sedimentation/flotation, biological oxidation, solids contact conditioning, and chlorine disinfection on the way back to you."
I've got no problem drink water as long as it was at one point cleaned....I used to drink out of a hose(as a child)....- elnerdo, on 10/22/2007, -0/+19I still drink out of a hose. There's nothing wrong with it. Everybody's just overly afraid of everything now.
- swazo, on 10/22/2007, -0/+7i use a cup.
- elnerdo, on 10/22/2007, -0/+19I still drink out of a hose. There's nothing wrong with it. Everybody's just overly afraid of everything now.
- bingobongony, on 10/22/2007, -5/+31Except that it complete *****. Most cities' tap water comes from reservoirs, not from recycled waste water. And these reservoirs are NOT outlets for the waste, so there is no corss contamination. Yes, there are some, but not most.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/22/2007, -3/+15All water is recycled. No matter where it comes from.. it's reused again and again.
- nastajus, on 10/22/2007, -2/+10what, reservoirs from the sky's rain? And where does the sky get it's rain from?
- bingobongony, on 10/22/2007, -2/+5Give me a ***** break...if you are going to fear the water that evaporates, then falls back down as rain, and then gets cleaned and you drink, then you have bigger problems. And if you are going to worry about evaporation (which gets rid of much of the remaining 4% by itself), then it doesn't matter WHERE the harmful stuff windws up. It will evaporate either way.
- InfiniteNothing, on 10/22/2007, -6/+2Tap water is not reclaimed water.
- joshmoney, on 10/22/2007, -4/+2I'd tap that.
- Evildudetx, on 10/22/2007, -3/+6I guess you have no clue where your water comes from then. I know mine comes from the reservoir less than a mile from my house. Waste water, grey water, and everything that goes out through my drains is treated and released far out into the gulf of Mexico.
- shyner, on 10/22/2007, -1/+3Well, mine comes from a well in my yard, which gets its water from a water reservoir underground which is fed by rain. So unless someone is ***** down my well, I'm pretty safe :)
- Midvicious, on 10/22/2007, -2/+1I remember around 1993 there was a Cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee where they pumped there tap water straight from "Lake Michigan". Supposedly. Getting water from uncouth sources is not as far-fetched as one might believe...
- FriskDown, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1All of the water on Earth is recycled. We are all drinking unknown amounts of recycled dinosaur urine.
- D3koy, on 10/21/2007, -2/+20It's not ignorance: "It was then processed using state-of-the-art screening, grit removal, sedimentation/flotation, biological oxidation, solids contact conditioning, and chlorine disinfection on the way back to you."
- sockpuppets, on 10/21/2007, -4/+43I pee what you did there...
- ggofthejungle, on 10/21/2007, -0/+2you made my day
- tpzoso, on 10/20/2007, -0/+17I see no problem with this water. I mean, its been bleached and reverse osmosis filtered, its fine.
- thatbirdguy, on 10/20/2007, -3/+1Actually, if it really was coming straight from a WWTP, it would neither be bleached nor RO'd.
Chlorine disinfection is not bleaching, while it can be done by using hypochlorite, it usually isn't. Wastewater also isn't reverse osmosed.
Wastewater effluent quality guidelines are much different from drinking water quality guidelines, the latter being much more stringent. I would not recommend drinking straight WWTP effluent before further treatment.
From the article directly: "It was then processed using state-of-the-art screening, grit removal, sedimentation/flotation, biological oxidation, solids contact conditioning, and chlorine disinfection on the way back to you." - which is standard wastewater treatment, and says nothing about the RO as you used in example.
That being said, the actual water in the article is not WWTP effluent at all, but I would have no problem drinking water from a treatment plant as long as it met the stringent drinking water quality guidelines. - nastajus, on 10/20/2007, -1/+2doesn't trace amounts of bleach stay in? and what's reverse-osmosis filtered? sounds complicated.
- goku1019, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
- thatbirdguy, on 10/20/2007, -3/+1Actually, if it really was coming straight from a WWTP, it would neither be bleached nor RO'd.
- bingobongony, on 10/21/2007, -7/+5So, they say they do it to make people think twice about what they send to the sewers? And then the ingredients talk about fecal matter?
Are they pissed off as the residents for flushing their ***** down the drain?- Myztry, on 10/20/2007, -1/+3Fecal matter. What do you think comes from the fish who live in the reservoirs, the birds that fly overheard, and the animals that graze in the catchment runoff area?
Ignorance is bliss!- TexanPsycho, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1Faecal.
- Myztry, on 10/20/2007, -1/+3Fecal matter. What do you think comes from the fish who live in the reservoirs, the birds that fly overheard, and the animals that graze in the catchment runoff area?
- naterpoke, on 10/20/2007, -9/+0REPPIN SYRACUSE h2o HARDCORE
2nd most polluted lake in the country mother brothers, read it and weep- naterpoke, on 10/20/2007, -3/+0wtf. syracuse utah?
- iVision, on 10/22/2007, -4/+15Better than drinking Aquafina.
- CATSCEO, on 10/20/2007, -1/+4That stuff tastes like *****.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/20/2007, -0/+4Yeah 94% is actually really good when you compare it to Aquafina.
- Pilot85, on 10/20/2007, -3/+15"Some variations in taste and/or color may occur due to holidays, predominant cuisine preference, infiltration/inflow, or sewer cross-connections."
XP - WaterDragon, on 10/20/2007, -8/+2No amount of regulation or conservation activities by the people will make any difference, until and unless the federal government rises to the occasion and begins doing the ONE thing it is legitimately supposed to be doing, REGULATING the industrial corporations, on behalf of the good of the citizens (and not on behalf of the profits of the corporations).
They continue to use all kinds of toxic chemicals in household cleaning products, paints and thinners, cosmetics, air fresheners, perfumes, make up...virtually every manufactured product sold in the us. the solution must happen on the level of STRICT regulation and criminal prosecution of the corporations that manufacture all these toxic products. the people have little choice about what to use ( especially since the non-toxic alternative products are waaay overpriced, as the corporations continue to control the market with their VOLUMES of CHEAP poisonous products for the masses to consume. They also control the advertising / broadcast media.
There is only ONE mess! It is the fact that the central government of the US is totally corrupt and favors the corporations, when it ought to be favoring the interests and wellbeing of the citizens and regulating and prosecuting the corporations.
It would be nice if we actually followed the constitution, and protected individual rights.
And jailed the corporate pigs who violate all our rights every day...and jailed all the government agents who allow and promote this activity.- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3Sounds like you need a happy meal.
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- Omar12, on 10/22/2007, -1/+19Bottled Water is a rip-off!..yes i said it.
- Evildudetx, on 10/21/2007, -2/+3Move to a state that is likely to get hit by a hurricane. I bet you change your tune in a heartbeat.
- Yoshi39, on 10/21/2007, -1/+3In case of an emergency like that you could just drink soda.
- Omar12, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1Ha! actually I was raised in Puerto Rico and currently live in South Florida.
I've been through 3 major hurricanes.
By experience, I prepare before an hurricane, and get gallons and gallons of tap water.
- Evildudetx, on 10/21/2007, -2/+3Move to a state that is likely to get hit by a hurricane. I bet you change your tune in a heartbeat.
- gormenghast, on 10/22/2007, -3/+4Using bottled water to raise environmental awareness is like selling bullets with "make love not war" imprinted on the side
except the latter would be really cool. - internetcoward, on 10/20/2007, -2/+6Do people who drink bottled water think it actually comes from a spring or a stream... Do they have millions of interns just dipping a plastic bottle into the stream every second of the day? Bottled water is just 'purified' water.... how about this, instead of buying bottled water, send me the money you'd spend on it, then fill a mug of tap water and drink it.
- Woah_G!, on 10/20/2007, -2/+2I wish I read the last line first. This article wasn't worth reading after I got to the end.
- ACrazyGerman, on 10/20/2007, -2/+1I'd drink it I mean no matter how you look at it the water you're drinking at some time came out of some thing else.
- doktorzee, on 10/20/2007, -3/+1I'll order a case of the stuff!
- gregharmon, on 10/20/2007, -4/+1You people who think that people drink bottled water because they perceived it as being cleaner, are mostly wrong. I would wager that the vast majority of people who drink bottled water do so because their tap water taste like pure chlorine and/or it's more convienient to grab a bottle of water, than it is to hold a glass under the tap. ( Yes, I know you can refill bottles of water and leave them in the fridge. )
- hobbers, on 10/20/2007, -1/+1It's too bad that the water in the bottle was NOT from the sewer district. I think Dirty Jobs did an episode at San Francisco's water district. And they said that the water they send out to the ocean is CLEANER than the city's drinking water.
- jasekasp, on 10/20/2007, -1/+2It's crazy now adays, sewage water can be purified and made cleaner than the water that comes out of your faucet. I live in one of the first cities (Irvine, California) to implement a water reclamation system like this to clean sewage and pump it back out as clean water for use on city property, not for drinking (even though it is 'technically' safe enough), but for watering plants. The distribution of the water was originally done with light purple PVC piping which coined the name "Irvine Purple" and it became the same piping used by cities all over America for their own reclamation programs.
- Soofi, on 10/20/2007, -3/+4Here's a picture of what looks like someone drinking sewage water;
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42640000/jpg ...
(it's called beer!)- Myztry, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1That's why kegs of beer were traditionally stored in the basement. To allow for gravity fed recycling of beer (/end sick joke)
- Spacecow, on 10/20/2007, -1/+4Calvin and Hobbes already did this joke 15 years ago (except with lemonade stands, I guess). :p
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2Problem Child: He pees in a pitcher and serves it warm.
- unearth, on 10/20/2007, -1/+1"But it's also a lesson about our environment ... (about) being more conscious about what goes down the drain."
What exactly are people sending into the sewers that they don't have to? I have never heard of someone pouring liquid anthrax down the drain for no reason. Pretentious and pointless advertising crusade.- Soofi, on 10/20/2007, -1/+2Should have paid more attention to the article;
"He said the public can help by not letting certain products swirl down the drain to end up in the sewer system, particularly paint, gasoline and household solvents."
- Soofi, on 10/20/2007, -1/+2Should have paid more attention to the article;
- sc0rpi0n, on 10/20/2007, -1/+0Aren't Australians already drinking water purified from sewer water? Not to mention that you are maybe drinking it for years already. You thought it was from clean deep water from ocean or something? There's very good chance that your city is purifying the sewer water, drain it to nearby river or lake only to take it some time later for treatment and delivery to your home tap water.
- Myztry, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1Not drinking. We have two seperate water system systems (in places). The recycled water is denoted by lilac access points. (my families company makes recycled plastic boxes and covers, and those sales are increasing in relation to standard grey covers)
- wright3279, on 10/20/2007, -1/+6Don't astronauts drink their recycled "water"? And on the subject of impurities in sewer water, include fluids flushed from a body at the funeral home.
- bobasaurus, on 10/20/2007, -1/+4"removing up to 94 percent of biodegradable pollutants"
...meaning I would be drinking 6% sewage? Too much poo for me, thanks. - 0ppenheimer, on 10/20/2007, -2/+1What is that strange looking protrusion in the center of the bottle?
- Myztry, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3LOL. It's called an air bubble. Perhaps they should have taken the photo with the bottle standing upright.
- cruzin365, on 10/20/2007, -2/+1Wow! That fixed my appetite.
- cihm, on 10/20/2007, -0/+0When bottled water first came out SNL did a send-up, called it Swill. Straight from the bottom of Lake Erie. Google "snl swill" - it's on MetaCafe. To the tune of Carly Simon's "Anticipation" which used to be a ketchup commercial.
- macwac, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2Majority of Singapore's water comes from recycling of just that, sewage water - through a long process of using carbon filtering, boiling etc.. (since the country does not have enough water it recycles majority of water and buys more from Malaysia)
- Myztry, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1All the water we drink is recycled. It's no doubt exited some creature during the past couple of million years.
But thankfully most of it goes through evaporation / cloud / rain filtration system.
'Acid rain' is an issue though. The air isn't as clean as it once was. No surface water is naturally pure H2O.
As for bodies of water, fish excrete in them. Birds dollop in them. Wildlife relieve themselves in the catchments areas.
The porous rocks of springs provide some natural filtration, but also add minerals of unregulated quantity and type.
Unless you are drinking distilled or synthesized water, you've probably never actually had pure H2O.
But it's not a big deal. As long as the containment level is within reason, it's how your body is designed to take water.
For the price of bottled water, they should be able to refine even sewerage to become 'fit' drinking water. - nyjfootball, on 10/20/2007, -2/+094%? It might as well be 9%.
- SiNN4R, on 10/20/2007, -2/+1I'd drink it.
- iChaz, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3i love how it says "94% of all bacterial waste"
- chandler, on 10/20/2007, -2/+1I'd buy some if they sold it.
- emomakesmecry, on 10/20/2007, -1/+1"...Jeff McFarlane, pretreatment coordinator at the plant, used similarly labeled bottled water as a tongue-in-cheek Christmas gift for his neighbors last year, since they all know where he works."
I'm sure he's really popular in his neighborhood. - Jalh, on 10/20/2007, -2/+1dasani's brother !
- dprevite, on 10/20/2007, -1/+2Hah, I even have a picture of them bottling sewage
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dprevite/1646664438/ - phenry50BMG, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1If you don't filter your water through a Berkey filter prior to drinking it, you must not care about yourself as much as you think you do. Water is Blue Gold.
- royphil345, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0I recently bought a Berkey and I'm mad at myself for putting it off so long. It's unbelievable how awesome water from the Berkey tastes. Very clean, no "swimming pool" or any other odor at all, a very slight "zing" from the natural minerals that aren't removed. Even some bottled water makes me make faces and this is just so refreshing and goes down so easy. I'm drinking A LOT more water now instead of Coke and coffee made with the Berkey water is noticably tastier. Excellent product!!!
- andywebb95, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1Probably tastes like ***** :)
- meachen, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1It may be a joke in America.....but in Singapore they actually do turn sewage into drinking water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater
- zachshmack, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1The FDA is more strict when it comes to public drinking water than bottled water. Keep that in the back of your mind the next time you're sipping on your fancy "spring" water.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2Atlanta will be drinking real sewer water soon
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCHTI00 ... - noctu, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1but politicians drink bottled water when addressing the public they cant be wrong can they?
- fixedcoma, on 10/21/2007, -0/+1unfortunately it's in a plastic bottle! Maybe next year you will get a door prize my man!
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