Really, dude. Recycled waste, or as the right-wing liked to call it some years back to further scare people and hamper adoption “toilet-to-tap”, is a safe and great way to help with CA’s water issues. Now you have to go and feed the trolls. I’ve been reading you in the U-T for years. I would have thought better of you. smh
Folks, the water that is in the world is finite and has been here since the Earth was formed. Using super-treated effluent just does what nature eventually does to it, just faster. The only water lost from the system is the kind that is so contaminated by “fracking” that it needs to be injected into the earth and locked away forever.
ibFrank 12 months ago
Why does anyone let their dog drink from the toilet?
zwilnik64 12 months ago
Look, we all know what fish do in the Colorado River. This is just keeping the cycle in-house.
kaffekup 12 months ago
Isn’t toilet water already drinking water? There’s only one water main coming into my house.
It seems a real waste to purify water just to flush, water the lawn and wash your car.
RadioDial Premium Member 12 months ago
When you think about it, all water is recycled water.
namleht 12 months ago
We have been converting toilet water to drinkable water for decades…….that’s what all those treatment plants are for…
moondog42 Premium Member 12 months ago
Nature has been recycling water for millennia. We call it “the water cycle”, and they teach it to small children as a good thing.
If humans found a way to speed up the process, why do some people think it’s a bad thing….?
mistercatworks 12 months ago
Nature recycles waste water. Every molecule you drink has been through some organism at some point in time.
XtopherSD 12 months ago
Really, dude. Recycled waste, or as the right-wing liked to call it some years back to further scare people and hamper adoption “toilet-to-tap”, is a safe and great way to help with CA’s water issues. Now you have to go and feed the trolls. I’ve been reading you in the U-T for years. I would have thought better of you. smh
Saurischia 12 months ago
Good one!
ShadyLithand Premium Member 12 months ago
Truth is we need Desal systems in California seriously.
DangerMan 12 months ago
Folks, the water that is in the world is finite and has been here since the Earth was formed. Using super-treated effluent just does what nature eventually does to it, just faster. The only water lost from the system is the kind that is so contaminated by “fracking” that it needs to be injected into the earth and locked away forever.