The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
The City of San Francisco (and soon the state) wants you to drink recycled wastewater (toilet water).
QUESTION: Would you drink recycled wastewater?
Talk about it….
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Nope…no Baby Ruth’s either. I’ll stick to Bud Light.
umm.. I prefer the taste…
Not by choice, as long as I have a choice. Does this mean I might have to move out of state, or the country?
Yes. The technology is already in use in El Paso, Texas. There is no differnce in purity than any other municipal water source after treatment.
only if I were on a deserted island and dying of thirst
I don’t see a problem. You probably couldn’t tell the difference.
We ‘re drinking it now and don’t realize it. Once sewage is treated to remove all the poop, pee, toilet paper, and many, many, other things people flush down the toilet, chemicals are added to kill the germs. In coastal states the treated sewage is then sent to the ocean, in the inland states the treated water is sent to rivers and lakes. It is estimated that world wide, about 90% of evaporated ocean water goes into the water cycle for drinking.
In the US we get most of our water from rivers and lakes, but some of it is from the ocean also.
If you think about it, all the water on earth is recycled.
If California had ever got its act in order we wouldn’t be having these bizarre issues.. No, I wouldn’t drink recycled water and I don’t give a rip what El Paso does. We know how Flint Michigan did with its water. Can’t anyone in Sacramento get anything done without some hare brained scheme?
Idiots!
I hate to break it to everyone but the water we drink every day has been though millions of years of waste… It’s not like our water supply is being infused with water every day that has not already been here…
The astronauts and submarine sailors do.
No, Fred! I can’t speak to astronauts, but you are wrong about submarines. We had access to an unlimited supply of water and an unlimited supply of heat. We made fresh water (and oxygen) from sea water without having to sort our recyclables.
All of our water is already “recycled”. There’s a finite amount of water on earth that just gets reused over and over again.
There are roughly 326 million cubic miles of water on earth.
That number does not vary.
Droughts and floods have been happening on Earth forever.
We need to learn how to live with the earth because governments are incapable of managing anything and always fail.
If it was good enough for Kevin Costner, then it’s ok by me.
You’re already doing it anyway. After human waste is treated, it is dumped back into the ocean. Not to mention all the animal waste that gets washed into rivers and oceans.
Do we need any more proof to admit California has become extremely overpopulated.
For people who live in the cesspool that SF has become one might as well drink toilet water.
No…. I have no doubt it tastes better than Evian….. but still…. NO!
Good point. I found some bottled water practically undrinkable. As for the other question, “No, don’t want to think about it”.
please really they already are giving you what ever they want there is no one to oppose them they are in sole power of the state and established dominance over the utilities years ago
you should think about one thing though
they also say agriculture and meat is usda certified
and yet over the last 20 years maybe 30
so much product is bad or tainted or deemed recalled product
DO YOU REALLY WANT A SNAFFOO AT THE TREATMENT PLANT
SO WHEN YOU DRINK YOUR WATER YOU JUST MAY DIE BECASUE SOME VALVE OR SNESOR MALFUNCTIONED
AND BEFORE YOU SAY oh that never will happen
look up 3 mile island or chernoble
I would rather not drink anything this state provides or eat
the corruption is rampant through the politicians who are looking the other way same as the media when it comes to unions skipping safety inspections or covering up
same as the doo gooder so called watch dog environmentalist lol
they toil around in jeans saying yay or nay when on camera and still vote dem and when they need a hand out the gov outlaws straws or manhole covers or deems you can claim you are a horse if you want to and people have to ablidge or get tormented on the media and social media and by neighbors
you say texas has it ….
wow I did not know that grade school law was actually a defense
(they are doing it why cant we )
that’s how we got here in the first place
sally soccer mom preaching that Europe is so advanced and ahead of the the times and America should be like Europe …lol
America is or rather was the most different place on the planet
every other country rules their population by force and social outing
America is or rather was the home of the free and the brave and
Awesome rant brother, Dennis Miller is smiling right now, I know it!
Wildlife like fish and water birds and runoff from fertilized fields and pastures…we’re already drinking recycled toilet water.
No, thanks.
We already are.
This must be Gavin Newsoms water tax plan.
Pay up fellow Californians
BTW, everybody get their notice from CCWD today of the coming rate increase.
@Kirkwood Yes, I got the notice of the CCWD proposed increase and request for comments. Not happy about it. They may be hearing from me. They talk about all the great things they are going to do with my money, but there are some great things I’d like to do with that money, myself, that doesn’t include CCWD.
It would just be a matter of how thirsty I was.
Can’t wait to live in a pod eat bugs and drink piss!
Just goes to show how bad politicians and bureaucrats are. We are sitting next to the largest body of water on earth and they wants us to drink sewer water. We could have dams but the environmentalist all five of them say no. This state is so miss run it is pathetic. In the mean time billions of gallons run out to the sea.
In the meantime you don’t understand that only certain rivers and valleys make good reservoirs. But keep flounting your ignorance. So maybe you should just drink water from that big ocean out there. Whoops, it’s salt. But that can be processed too. Except for the power required and the waste that results. Yeah, just make up easy solutions and if they don’t work it’s the enviros fault.
Jojo I would like to buy you for what you are worth and sell you for what you think you are worth.
Gotta be better than CCWD.
Water is always recycled, doesn’t matter where it comes from, It rains, evaporates, to vapor, to come back as rain or snow, yep even that water in a waste treatment plant travels the same way
No, thanks. Collect rainwater for my dogs. Just like not drinking the water in Mexico….Bottled beer, soda and fruit juice.
Water district takes “drinking water” from The Delta, and there are municipal sewage treatment plants upstream from many cities.
Madonna drinks Pee.
……and that ain’t all!
maddonna not relevant
try kevin hart
but there is no way he drinks anything from the gov
My father always said water rusts your pipes. He drank beer and wine and lived to be 96. The only time I saw him drink water was with alka seltzer.
Why don’t we insist L.A. drinks the toidy water instead of taking all our precious Northern CA. water?
If they paired the Poo water with some desalinization plants they’d have enough water to get by & could stop stealing ours!
The astronauts do it; so can we. We ought to be recycling as much water as possible, not dumping 25 million gallons of partially treated water a day back into the Delta and Bay. We should leave as much as possible in the rivers for the salmon and steelhead. Farmers should be using only drip irrigation, and not selling the crops we water to Asia. Waste not; want not. The next drought is around the corner. We’re not really ready.
The only truly new water on earth is bottled and sold at Whole Foods. It’s on sale for the holidays. Refinance your house now and stock up!
Maybe it’s a good time to buy TANG stocks, I hear it goes well with Soylent Green.
Look up “wastewater treatment discharge locations” and then do a cross reference for “municipal water supply sources” and you will see the water being treated and served already has wastewater in it. Unless your tap is hooked up to a glacier spring, tertiary treated water is actually going to be better and safer than the water you are being served now.
The real problem with this method is the brine which is produced and must be disposed of, which is not always an easy thing to get permitted in California.
Bottoms up!
The amount of water wasted in leaks is enough to fix the problem. Every household and business should check for leaks once a year. Lift the lid off your water meter. Turn off all the water. See if it moves in 30 minutes. One rotation is about 7.5 gallons. I’m also against the use of canal water. If you live right on the canal you pay a flat fee based on the size of your property with no meter.
Would I? They do just they on the ISS. However, given how poorly our public and private utilities are run, I’d like to pass on that opportunity until our politicians have been drinking the stuff for a year.
Now we already have purple pipelines carrying recycled water to non-potable used such as landscaping and industry and see no reason why we can’t expand those uses as infrastructure expands and potable water becomes more expensive (6% increase by CCWD this year).
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