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I'm ok with this. Tertiary treatment of wastewater effluent combined with conventional sand filtration would result in high quality H2O.
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Quoted: I've always been under the impression that the effluent from a waste water treatment plant is technically cleaner than most river water. I assume the age and tech/type of treatment used by any given plant will affect this. Primary/secondary clarifies w/aeration basins and final treatment has to produce a cleaner product vs ponds with floating aeration motors that mix/propeller the shit out of the water... View Quote |
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Drink recycled water. It’s good for the environment and okay for you.
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Everything with a municipal sewage treatment plant is fine and dandy until there is a big rain storm and the sewage plant operators have to bypass treatment and discharge untreated raw sewage directly into the receiving waters in order to prevent the treatment plant from flooding and knocking it out of commission. Shit happens all the time. View Quote |
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Travel out of the state can be helpful, or so I hear.
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They should exchange that water with the saline left over from a desalination
plant and put it back to sea. The desalinated water could be added to the reservoir. |
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Quoted: Travel out of the state can be helpful, or so I hear. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Liberal tears. They're abundant here in California since the election, and cheaper than water. The salt is also good for exfoliating the skin. ETA: I may be misreading you. OOS is a long way to go for a shower. Whose side are you on? I am not sure what side there is to to take, either.. |
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The effluent from a wastewater treatment plant is already cleaner than what many cities pull from a river into their drinking water plants. This is a non-issue for anyone who understands the water cycle.
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So you don't live here? ETA: I may be misreading you. OOS is a long way to go for a shower. Whose side are you on? I am not sure what side there is to to take, either.. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted: Travel out of the state can be helpful, or so I hear. Liberal tears. They're abundant here in California since the election, and cheaper than water. The salt is also good for exfoliating the skin. ETA: I may be misreading you. OOS is a long way to go for a shower. Whose side are you on? I am not sure what side there is to to take, either.. |
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Horrifically expensive relative to gov subsidized water.
Horrifically expensive only if you don't consider the real costs of the "free" water. Shit, in Texas, the lack of freshwater inflows into our bays has a huge "cost" in lost production of things like oysters and fin fish. Some of our rivers are so tapped, they no longer even reach the Gulf. |
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Quoted: A well run conventional surface water treatment plant is capable of treating some pretty nasty water with E.coli counts in the thousands of colonies per 100 ml level. Also powdered activated carbon and the coagulation , flocculation and settling processes remove pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors along with many other chemical contaminants. I doubt dumping treated wastewater effluent into the water will make it anymore challenging to treat than it already is with the existing sources of pollution already in the water. View Quote People like clean, virgin sources of water because they're a lot cheaper to treat. |
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Quoted: Yes, I live in CA. You said you were waterlogged from all the liberal tears. I said leaving the state could be helpful; by that I meant getting away from the state, and all the liberal tears, could help you dry out a little. That clarify things? View Quote That is easier said than done, which is why we get ripped soo badly. ETA: It is four + hours from here to Nevada for me. |
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Once upon a time, the company I worked for made parts for them. We cracked up just a bit when we figured what they made. A.W.D. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted: Ever consulted on a sewage plant for a prison? You have to put a macerator or commutator like a Muffin Monster up front and use grinder pumps because of all the stuff they like the flush down the toilets. They also like their water towers extra high for increased water pressure to their firehoses for riot control. We cracked up just a bit when we figured what they made. A.W.D. |
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Trust me, having worked in privatised water you don't want to do that. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Ultimately, I think we should privatize water just like electrical service. most sectors benefit from privatization, but water resources is not one of them. |
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Quoted: i'm guessing that that poster wasn't aware of the massive water privatization effort of the 90s-early 00s, which resulted in higher costs, greater waste, and increased inefficiency across the board. most sectors benefit from privatization, but water resources is not one of them. View Quote |
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Quoted: But profits are profits... It doesn't matter how they're achieved... View Quote IMO, public/private partnerships are the way to go on water. you get both kinds of accountability--market and electorate--so they wind up policing each other. |
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Imagine an entire state drinking an ever increasing concentrated source of prescription, illegal and over the counter drugs.
You don't have to imagine it anymore. |
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Imagine an entire state drinking an ever increasing concentrated source of prescription, illegal and over the counter drugs. You don't have to imagine it anymore. View Quote however, the dosage from the water is vanishingly small compared to the doses everyone in the country (urban or rural) gets from meat, poultry, and dairy. |
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We have the largest desal plant in the country about 7 miles from where I’m sitting. It produces 50,000,000 gallons of fresh water per day. About 10% of the area’s water needs. We need more, but the environmentalists and don’t spoil our ocean view people rabidly fight them every step of the way. View Quote Ca water use data. |
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The morons in california dump hundreds of millions of gallons of treated waste water into the ocean every day. They could conserve more water like the rest of the states by putting it inland instead of into the ocean. That alone would help some the states water issues View Quote Us morons have been doing it for decades. |
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First the veggie burger
2nd the sewer burger 3rd the sewer water drink. Cali can eat shit and drink it too...well liberalism is a mental disorder. |
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Quoted: With some of the new standards out there, in areas like the Chesapeake watershed or especially any of our protect trout streams (the effluent even has to be a certain temperature when it comes out to protect the trout), you could literally drink the effluent coming out of the sewer plants. View Quote This is CA we're talking about here. |
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I'm all for bashing Cali liberals as much as the next guy, but treated sewage is VERY clean water. Almost always cleaner than the water systems it is discharged back into. We're better than fear-mongering, guys.
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I'm all for bashing Cali liberals as much as the next guy, but treated sewage is VERY clean water. Almost always cleaner than the water systems it is discharged back into. We're better than fear-mongering, guys. View Quote Another fine example of how the MSM controls the narrative. |
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When I was in the Boy Scouts we went to one of the water treatment plants. I was quite impressed. And the water is drinkable and doesn't taste any different than tap water. You should see how it looks coming in, though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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California to add recycled sewer water to the state reservoirs California’s water regulation agency approved new measures Tuesday that will allow recycled water – water that once ran through the sewers – to be added to the state’s reservoirs, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The new rules are expected to be implemented by 2023. "This is a type of indirect potable use — it's not treated recycle water that goes directly to someone's house," said Miryam Barajas at the Water Board. "It's highly treated." She says the new regulations could potentially affect all 36 of California’s reservoirs that serve as the main source of the state’s municipal drinking water. |
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This is what you get with complete and total Democrat rule and management. Suck it, Cali. View Quote https://www.texastribune.org/2012/06/11/texas-gets-creative-recycled-water/ |
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Quoted: That's right, it puts you like 6 years behind a red state. https://www.texastribune.org/2012/06/11/texas-gets-creative-recycled-water/ https://i.imgur.com/IW8simF.gif View Quote |
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So that explains why Texans are full of shit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted: That's right, it puts you like 6 years behind a red state. https://www.texastribune.org/2012/06/11/texas-gets-creative-recycled-water/ https://i.imgur.com/IW8simF.gif Let's let bygones be bygones my friend. It's almost like we are kin with all the Cali plates I see here from people leaving that shit hole for a better life (hopefully they can loose their shitty attitudes fairly quickly). Tell you what, I'll do you a solid. If you go to PSA right now, they have some great prices on cases of ammo, I like most of the country get it shipped right to our door. Sorry about your new laws. Say, are y'all still buying 10+ round mags with the anticipation that you won't have to toss them, or kneeling before your masters? Anyways, enjoy your shit water and hope it doesn't cause cancer like everything else there. |
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I believe all future water plants should be built beside or as close to as possible to the sewer plants. The sewer plants effluent line should be pipped straight to the water plant for use. We have the technology (have actually had it for years) to do this safety. Especially drout prone areas ... this would be a great help. It is such a waste on both ends, it would cut down on the water we pull from the earth. I believe another good idea would be for the states along the coasts to use sea water for drinking water. I mean fuck all the global warming folks say the oceans are rising so kill 2 birds with 1 stone. View Quote Reusing sewage should be for industrial water and irrigation of crops not eaten raw. The US just keeps handicapping ourselves for stupid reasons. |
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