Would it be because they always speak of using it as drinking water?
Would it not be better to point out the benefits of watering the garden with it and making it more attractive in that way?
2007-01-27 09:39:15 · 13 answers · asked by Yo Mum Mum 5 in Environment
Very much so but I think it is because any water coming from our taps should be drinkable and I just know that sometime in the future someone will stuff up and the hospitals will not be able to cope.
Water tanks seem like the only option.
2007-01-27 09:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by kevin_4508 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, if you consider that animals have been around for million of years, assume that the animal biomass is a relatively constant value for the last 200 million years, and that ingestion and excretion of water/urine of animals is comparable to that of humans, then all the water on this planet has been swallowed and rejected as urine at least 10 times.
Each drop.
And you think that recycled sewage water should be an issue?
Using "grey water" for watering garden is a great water saving measure. But it is not the only one. Each city that picks up water and rejects effluents in a river is forcing every city downriver to pick up its "recycled waste water" and drink it already.
2007-01-27 09:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You probably drink recycled water every day. Along a river the water is extracted. It gets cleaned and filtered and sent to homes. The resulting sewage is treated and the purified water is returned to the river.
This happens many times along the course of a river.
Your idea of having two separate water systems, drinking and so called "grey" water for flushing and gardens is an expensive option as it means doubling the amount of pipes in the distribution system.
2007-01-27 09:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It happens on a daily basis and on a large scale operation. Every city along any major river (for example the Missouri and the Mississippi) recycle their sewage water through stringent processes and then dump the treated sewage water back into the river. The next town down the river pulls their drinking water from the river, purify it, and send it to homes where it, once again is flushed into the sewage system, recycled and dumped into the river. This continues down the entire river. Makes you wonder how non-contaminated the water really is, and, the further down the river you are, the more contaminated the water? I find it gross and disgusting.
2007-01-27 09:45:53 · answer #4 · answered by cowboys21angel 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you leave sewage water out on a few hot, dry days, the water may evaporate into the atmosphere, or filter into an underground aquifer. Later on, that water may return to us as rain or seep into a lake/stream (spring water). At that point it's *really* clean... That's natures way of recycling, right? Maybe if we humans use similar processes in recycling....
2007-01-27 09:47:39 · answer #5 · answered by joie_du_cor 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You're obviously a very selfish person who doesn't know anything about anything. Water has been recycled for billions of years. Plants don't deserve to be thought of as trash that gets the crappy water dumped on them. Plants use rain water, which is also recycled water. Learn something about the ecosystem, the earth, and how it works. Then get back to us.
2007-01-27 10:00:25 · answer #6 · answered by natalie 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All water is effectively recycled through nature by ability of the cycle it is been occurring because the international began, so I see no difficulty with recycling as such. If i ought to in my view have a set up the position i ought to deliver jointly rain water, and use a filtration equipment to make it threat-free to drink, and then filter out it by ability of for different makes use of i ought to take action as thoroughly as i ought to. regrettably for me it is the price of putting any such equipment in position it is prohibitive. i'm presently pondering putting a gray water recycling equipment in position to take water from the showering device to the backyard the position it ought to then be to used to water flowers. As i exploit soapnuts quite of washing powder, there should not be an concern with eliminating soaps from the water in the previous utilising it both.
2016-10-16 04:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is water. If the H20 is separated from everything else and is loaded with chlorine while in the delivery system, it is not a problem for me.
NASA developed a method to collect urine from astronauts on the Space Station, treat it and reuse the water. The astronauts refused to go along even though they know it is safe.
2007-01-27 09:44:57 · answer #8 · answered by regerugged 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Get used to it. The earth is billions of years old. It's all been urine before. You're drinking dinosaur urine - they were here billions of years themselves. We're about 90%+ water ourselves... so that's what we are too.
Nature is a great filter and recycler though.
Everything is cleansed constantly, naturally, plus what we to to accelerate the filtration and oxygenization and freshening of our own sewage.
2007-01-27 09:51:58 · answer #9 · answered by marcus 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No not really because it is filtered and cleaned!
My geography teacher said you could be drinking someones urine but it is filtered and cleaned.
But if you are turned off just drink mountain or spring water you get from tesco or something!
Hope it helps!
2007-01-27 09:44:04 · answer #10 · answered by amir_in_london 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋