2006-12-16 15:52:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
No idea as to percentage, but Adelaide's main sewerage is treated and then used to water crops via a pipeline to Virginia, one of the northern suburbs. Adelaide is a city of about 1,000,000 people, capital of South Australia, just down the road thataway<<<. Not widely publicized, but it is pure enough to be drinkable. 100% of my sewerage is recycled! I grow vegetables where the septic tank overflows - amazing tomatoes!!
2006-12-16 17:11:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We already do, yet advances in technologies have made it feasible to attain this adequately. Sewage is recycled by technique of placing apart solids from the water, and purified making use of chlorination and enzymes to ruin bacteria. The solids are dried, floor and then extra composted and used as agricultural fertilizer, and many times categorised 'organic and organic'. The reclaimed water is in a roundabout way placed decrease back into the water grant, yet discharged by skill of pipeline into the oceans to enable organic recycling earlier being reused in municipal water elements. i'm no longer fullyyt particular of each and every ingredient, yet it is type of the way it rather works. And, convinced I drink tap water and stay in an city area, so by technique of default I already do. Thank God for Brita!!!
2016-11-26 23:39:21 · answer #2 · answered by estremera 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but I think the percentage if pretty low. Some relatives visited from Australia about 8 years back and they were impressed that we had a garbage disposal in our kitchen sink. They stated that kitchens there in Australia generally don't have garbage disposals . . . something to do with the sewage factor or something...not sure. I believe Australians are more conscientious of their land.
2006-12-16 15:57:05 · answer #3 · answered by onelight 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I may be wrong, but I don't think any at the moment.
The idea has been played with, but no-one is very thrilled with the idea!!!!
If it was kept separate from reservoir water, and used only for toilet flushing that would be OK, I don't like the idea of it being used anywhere else, certainly not for drinking......
2006-12-16 15:56:15 · answer #4 · answered by maggie rose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋