I don't know about you guys but the idea of consuming and bathing in other peoples fecal matter is quite disturbing.
If living in a country with states named 'Queensland' and 'New South Wales' and a tool for a Prime Minister wasn't bad enough, we are now entering 'Level 5 Water Restrictions' and subsequently in the next few years will be forced to consume recycled sewage.
Now I might be wrong, but I was under the assumption that more than 70% of the earth is WATER. Now I'm also gonna go out on a limb and say that most of that 70% is the ocean. Who was the dickhead who thought of recycling shit?
Of course, the current justification is that other major cities do it (Washington, London, Singapore, etc).
"If it's good for them, it's good for us"
Which may be true, but the filtration process that Queensland will be using only takes a couple of days, where as
in the cities mentioned the process takes weeks. We didn't even get a choice. Our state-member-dude made that for us. I'm so proud to be Australian.
Please,come visit our beautiful pristine beaches, desolate outback and while your at it have a taste of our excrement.
Anyways, the point of the post is just to get your opinions, maybe your living in one of the said places above and already is subjected to this uhh... shit.
I also live in QLD, they say the water produced has less in it than the water already in our dams, and to be honest we don't have much of a choice: move out of QLD or recycle water (don't mention de-salination (sp?) because that's supposed to be coming too )
I don't like it much, but meh. (mmm tastey sh*t... lol)
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12th April, 2007 at 00:15:25 -
I live in Melbourne. I don't think that we're as affected by the drought as you guys, because of the rivers and stuff down here. But I totally agree, there must be other options. You'd think de-salination would be the easiest option?
Yeah they do but it's the principal. We didn't even get a say, much less a choice. And also I've heard recycled sewage plants are VERY prone to malfunctioning due to the numerous filtration systems.
I wouldn't drink recycled sewage water even if it was more 'healthier' than normal water. Even if by drinking it enchanted me with uber klikking skills I still would decline.
you don't let wc water get directly into the ocean, imagine how much poo and stuff would fill the ocean then wc water is directed to a cleaning facility and then let back out into the ground water afaik.
Quit your yapping and be thankful you even have water. The reprocessed water is as clean as water from rivers. But I suppose you don't mind the idea of drinking duck shit, decaying fish matter and other crap, whereas human waste is completely out of the question.
No fecal matter remains in the water, no bacteria remain in the water and no "taste" is left in the water. So what's your problem? Are you really that much of a retard that you'd try to boycott perfectly good ideas to get over a perfectly real problem?
BTW, I live in an area in the vicinity of a sewage plant and also an asbestos warehouse.
Fantastic, how you're complaining about your water having non-existent fecal matter in it, while on the other side of the world people are dying in millions because they don't even have any water to complain about, or because their water actually contains real crap and bacteria.
How much tap water do you drink anyway?
I hardly drink any at the moment although i did go through a phase of having at least one glass a day a while ago.
Yes, I'd much rather drink recycled water. Due to the number of people whining it's going to be under far more scrutiny, and therefore be far cleaner. Even if you love the other wonderful things in 'normal' water, let's not forget the giardia and cryptosporidium scare we had here in Sydney a few years back. I believe that was from cow shit, specifically.
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