Posted on 07/12/2023 6:42:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Most big cities”
Big cities spent a great deal of money on getting good water.
Croton water for New York City and Loch Raven water for Baltimore come to mind.
Singapore has been doing this for more than twenty years, nothing new. And it works just fine there.
Indeed they do. I used to fish in some of the WSSC reservoirs that feed Montgomery and Prince George counties in Maryland. Very nice, well maintained, clean infrastructure. Of course, the fish, frongs, turtles, beavers, deer, birds and other critters relieve themselves in it ... but human visitors are admonished to "Commit No Nuisance".
Well, that has been happening hee for a very long time.
Kingsport treast sewage and sends it back to the holston River. Downstream, Morristown drinks the Holston river water.
It would be less costly to simply build an appropriate number of reservoirs to capture rainwater. And desal plants for the more arid regions near the Pacific.
“Can these people build it and run it effectively for the foreseeable future without problems?”
Sure it’ll work out without problems as long as you make sure you don’t have any 50 year old, non-inspirational white guys on the diverse, young team.
Bingo.
Refusing to understand how the earth operates is a feature of the liberals, and the commie trash take advantage of this. Which, BTWay, is immoral and ought to be illegal, like defrauding a retarded person into a contract.
Everything is recycled into simpler items (usually).
I doubt the ruling elite will be drinking wastewater, or eating bugs, or giving up their gas-powered cars.
...or giving up their HVAC, Gulfstream Jets or their GUNS................
California Proposes Turning Toilet Wastewater into Drinking WaterDecades ago (1970's) the wastewater plant in South Lake Tahoe, Cal (STPUD AKA stupid) did just that.
They had their treated water in the lobby you could drink.
I used to work on the “septic” side of a metropolitan water and sewer department. This makes a great “eww” story but this has been happening via technology filtration for centuries, and where do you think that p!ss on the tree goes on your yearly hunting trip? Hint: natural watershed filtration.
It’s not like your pee goes to a special hidey space never to be encountered again.
Even the ancients understood the Water Cycle...............
They used to get it the same way from Malaysia but their not so wonderful experience as one country before Singapore and Malaysia went their separate ways in 1965, convinced them to diversify their sources.
Raw water is not sewer water, per se, but can include portions of it. Pricing is discounted according to the amount of foreign matter in the water much as grain prices paid are discounted for things like dust, insects, mouse crap and the like.
It is much easier and cheaper to refine raw water into safe drinking water than it is do do so through methods such as desalination. The only exceptions are where raw water isn't easily available such as the Middle East. IOW, where desalination is widely in place for that very reason.
We have "ag" water for crops and "culinary" water (filtered, chlorinated) as "potable". Ag water flows in canals. Culinary water arrives treated and pressurized in city water lines. I use an RO unit under the sink for all drinking water. It gets a second cleaning via the refrigerator filter. That removes toxic metals, VOC and micro-organisms. Nothing is perfect. Even the RO has somewhat higher mineral content that requires periodic descaling of the coffee maker.
With San Fagsicko’s fetishes, not a problem.
There is a Saharan tribe in Chad featured in National Geographic not so many years ago that routinely filters and recycles their own urine through gourds and ash. If you were to take a whiz outside in the desert where it could not be recovered, they would consider that highly wasteful and offensive.
De-salination is a great option because sewage is only near shore Frisco and a has some water is piped in from farter out and produce over a million gallons of fresh water per day.
other plants are on the coast line to.
Every little bit helps
Figures. I think they proposed this before and of course people rejected it, so now they try again. 🙄
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