what do u think about recycled water? Fact or Fiction, or should we be drinking sewage?

Question

if possible, please send me references by email. I am currently researching on this topic....

Thank you everyone

Answer 1

Sewage is the product of incomplete digestion and has lots of nutrients that can be recycled. Unfortunately the nutrients also foster a thriving community of bacteria, some of which are pathogenic. The problem with drinking sewage, aside from the taste, is removing the pathogens. The acceptable levels of pathogens in water vary by species. For some species 1 will make you sick and for other species you can consume 1000, but 1,000,000 will make you sick. The standards are set by agencies such as the FDA or CFIA and are posted on those websites. Good luck with your research.

Answer 2

Well water can be purified by distillation. For sewage, it would probably be best to distill it multiple times, even though when done properly distillation results in pure H2O. I'm not sure, but water might be recycled to a certain extent. Sewage water might become rain water again, and then the rain goes into reservoirs and stuff. Depends on where the sewers go.

Answer 3

We already do, yet advances in technologies have made it accessible to realize this wisely. Sewage is recycled via keeping apart solids from the water, and purified utilising chlorination and enzymes to wreck micro organism. The solids are dried, floor and then greater composted and used as agricultural fertilizer, and oftentimes categorised 'organic and organic'. The reclaimed water isn't straight away placed decrease back into the water grant, yet discharged with the aid of pipeline into the oceans to permit organic recycling until now being reused in municipal water supplies. i'm no longer fullyyt valuable of each ingredient, yet it relatively is greater or less the way it relatively works. And, specific I drink faucet water and stay in an city area, so via default I already do. Thank God for Brita!!!

Answer 4

It is a fact that all water on the earth is recycled through the hyrdologic cycle.
We are all drinking someone else's sewage to a certain degree. Many wastewater treatmentr plants discharge to a receiving stream and another community downstream uses it for their drinking water supply.

Answer 5

Sorry to say, Olivia, but there is no virgin water to be had. The water present on the earth today is the same water that was present when the earth was formed.

It has been rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, rain, sleet, snow, ice and steam.
The same water that washed the mud from a caveman has washed the mud from a modern vehicle. It really gets around.

All of the fresh water we drink has been recycled millions of times - by nature and, more recently, by man.

Answer 6

I work at a treatment plant and we recycle water to industry to use for cooling purposes before it goes into a local water body. As for recycling water for drinking, several communities downriver take their drinking water after our city has returned the used water to the river.

Answer 7

I don't have any facts but here's an opinion. All water we use is recycled, it's been on the earth since the beginning.

Answer 8

I have gotten sick twice from drinking the "recycled" tap water in Orange county California, I was in Disneyland at the time so it was really the pits.

Answer 9

we are anyway... ie. the water cycle