recycled water?

Question

Recycled water?
if people eat pork and it goes into sewage after there bodies have finished with it,
the sewage gets recycled into drinking water
is it then ok for persons of a religion that does not consume pork to drink recycled waste water
as the water is not pure
and is it not halal

Answer 1

recycled water

Right now we are useing the same water that was here when the Earth was created. We don't get any more from any place.

Answer 2

I'm not entirely clear on the religious issues over water recycling, but current water treatment technologies are able to purify waste water to the level of purity required for human consumption.

Reverse Osmosis, distillation, UV-light treatment, are just a few of the avaliable technologies that have been proven to be effective at water treatment, are are often used in combination to remove/kill biological or toxic matter from water. So chemically speaking, recycled drinking water is free from any pork, and just about everything else as well.

The trouble with water treatment, is that the standards usually used are set at a rather paraniod level. Output water from the purification process is often so clean, that dissolved minerals, that are required for our nervous system to operate normally, are either missing entirely, or present in concentrations below what human beings need.

Hence there is often a 2nd stage to the process, involving the remineralisation of the water.

Besides which, water is constantly being recycled on a global scale, there is a finite amount of water on the earth, and its constantly being recycled in the rain cycle. So if recycled water isn't halal, i'm pretty sure the stuff that falls from the sky isn't either.

Answer 3

The water that is recycled is much purer than the water we have been receiving for decades. Recycling water is the only valid and sane solution to our water problems. Frankly, if those have an issue with drinking the recycled water from the tap - then it is simple ... buy in bottled water and place in cooler or ceramic pot just like I used to do years ago when our home pipes were very rusty. Recycled water is quite fine for general washing, bathing, etc. which is where most water wastage goes. Save the planet, I say .. and enough of this nonesense about drinking "effluent" !!

Answer 4

All of our water is recycled. It's called an eco-system. It is part of my religion not to drink sewage poop water. Does that mean I can never drink water or products with water in them? I'd die.

Edit: This was obviously a swipe at Muslims. It's not working for you. Not because it was a swipe at Muslims, but because there are much funnier and more effective ways to do it.

Answer 5

All of your water is recycled - and always has been - and always will be. The earth does not "create" new water - we are simply re-using the same water over and over again. However, modern water treatment methods are effective enough that there is nothing in the water you drink that will cause you to violate your religious beliefs.

Answer 6

How is this an immigration question? There is no pork in recycled water.

Answer 7

well the water is refined down to a certain health standard, all the impurities from the pig will be taken out, leaving it as just normal H2O. u got nothing to worry about.

i totally agree with square_dotzz's comment too! ppl need to get over it!

and old dawg...ur so rite!!

Answer 8

Well,that's a very interesting point.I would think that the process used to purify the water would take care of that problem.But if it were a concern of mine I would find out from my water company.Good luck.

Answer 9

i never herd this. but my 10 year old said it's true. she learned this in science class. hopefully they will keep using purification methods they are using.

Answer 10

ok