ewww, someone told me that the filtered water we drink were used by other people and animals before meaning that it could have been someones filtered period, diarea, or somthing... ewwewwwewww
2006-07-19 12:05:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Honey, we breathe worse than that every day.
2006-07-19 12:07:26 · answer #1 · answered by rrrevils 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Astronauts are going to have to recycle their Urine on long trips like to mars. There is a special machine that does this. It's perfectly safe. On another issue about ocean water. I think there is a saline plant down in Florida that filters out all the salt in the water. The water still taste funny, but it's good. Eventually that's going to be the way to conserve water more in the future. Water is constantly tested for impurities , before it gets to the public. The people of New Orleans, La have it really bad . They pumped all that bad water out of the city into Lake Ponchatrane. Lots of it. OOOOO nasty.
2006-07-21 12:58:51 · answer #2 · answered by LARRY P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may depend in what country you're living in. I'm assuming you live in the united states. Depending on what you mean by filtered water, there are various methods of getting and cleansing it.
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/nbw.asp has some detailed information from a four year study on bottled water that you may find useful.
Since that study, the question has been asked, "Ok, so bottled water isn't necessarily safe, and neither is tap, what do I drink?"
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/qtap.asp answers that question.
Especially of note is their fifth point.
". I've heard that the Bush administration is proposing to limit the scope of the Clean Water Act. How could that affect my drinking water?
Early in 2003, the Bush administration initiated a process to rewrite Clean Water Act rules and narrow the scope of the law. If the administration succumbs to pressure from industrial polluters, thousands of streams, wetlands and other waters that filter pollution out of drinking water sources would no longer be protected by the law, allowing industry to dredge, fill or dump waste into them. Unregulated contamination from sewage, oil, hazardous chemicals and other pollution would be disastrous for our drinking water supplies and public health. Children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems would be especially at risk from exposure to unsafe, contaminated drinking water. (See NRDC's March 2003 press release for more information.) "
There's nothing I've seen that indicates human waste could be directly pumped into your water in the Untied States. Since most water comes from udnerground, it may reach your water soruces eventually, but that's what fitlering stations are for. As shown, they're not as effective as they could be, but you're not drinking out of the toilet, so to speak.
Edit: Last note, if this were a huge problem for most US areas, there wouldn't be a Mythbusters show concerning the idea of feacal coliform getting onto your toothbrush after you flush.
2006-07-19 13:00:52 · answer #3 · answered by interesting_dilemmas 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey, thats what the world is coming to, and you can't stop drinking water because you need it to survive...at least it has been filtered. someone told me that we are the only species alive to drink the milk from another species....how gross is that? but a cool way to think of things is that since the hydrologic cycle is a cycle the rain that is coming down today could have been the same rain that was coming down on the dinosaurs millions of years ago...feces and all! science is fun!, but i do agree it is a little disgusting when you think about it too much! :)
2006-07-19 12:11:57 · answer #4 · answered by super girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry. The water you drink goes through extensive treatment and filtration processes before it comes out your tap. Solids are settled out, chlorine or other processes are used to kill bacteria, and filtration is used to get rid of anything else that has made it that far.
If it's not safe by the time it reaches you than the supplier will be in mucho trouble from the feds...and believe me, they don't want that. Not to mention that many higher ups will lose their jobs, and BELIEVE ME, they do not want that!
2006-07-19 12:14:33 · answer #5 · answered by Ellen J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Girl you need to wake up and smell the air we ingest. If you are worried about the water you drink, buy bottled. 48 bottles 16.9 oz Wally world $3.49. Works for me.
2006-07-19 12:10:38 · answer #6 · answered by ebay_convert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depemnds where you get your water from. If it's from a well, probably not recycled water. If it comes from a river it most likely is recycled water thats been cleaned up with some chlorine added. yum yum
2006-07-19 12:16:15 · answer #7 · answered by toomuchtime 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
omg!! I can't even believe some people!! Water from the ocean??
Filtered this and that??? C'mon now....so, in the case that you believe all this hogwash..do you still drink it?
2006-07-19 12:10:59 · answer #8 · answered by Dee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where have you been all these years? Didn't you know you were really drinking dinosaur piss,when you drank that nice big glass of water?!!!!!
2006-07-20 00:15:59 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah so? Better then drinking soda, that stuff does alot worse.
2006-07-19 12:09:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where on earth did you hear that????
I am going to pretend like I never read this question!
2006-07-19 12:30:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋