bad and good points of recycled water?

Question

are there any risks in drinking recycled water?
good things about recycled water?
are there any other possible way of having more drinking water other than recycling it?

Answer 1

Risks:
Humans may face psychological barriers against drinking reclaimed water, since it was formerly sewage. Small amounts of pathogens and pharmaceutical chemicals are able to pass through the filtering process, potentially causing danger to humans. Modern technologies such as reverse osmosis are helping to overcome this problem. Many utilities providing reclaimed water for nonpotable uses do not treat the water to drinking water standards.

Benefits:
The costs involved with reclaimed water typically exceed those of standard potable water in most regions of the world, where a fresh water supply is plentiful. However, in areas where supplies of fresh water are limited, treating wastewater for reuse is becoming an economically attractive option, because it conserves drinking water. This is why many cities in Southwestern United States make use of reclaimed water.
Reclaimed water is usually sold to citizens at a cheaper rate than standard drinking water. It also contains higher levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, which help fertilize plants when used for irrigation.

Other ways of obtaining water:
Buying it at a supermarket? Filtering it? Boiling?

Answer 2

Recycled water is usually much cleaner than the water you drink normally. There was a lot of fuss in Australia recently when it was proposed that sewage should be treated, filtered and cleaned to provide drinking water and a town voted against it. They were subject to a scare campaign. There is nothing wrong with recycled water and many places around the world do it. Not to recycle is a waste of a perfectly good resource.

Answer 3

If water is recycled properly there should be no risks to drinking recycled water because it would be cleaned of all impurities..

Also if its recycled and your drinking it from the tap its been through the cities treatment plant and would have been sanitized for potability.

Its good to drink recycled water as its reusing a precious resource that is continually being contaminated.

Hope that helps

Answer 4

all the points are bad & yuk
& you can blame all the labor governments because they never got any dams for years
& thousands more people have come to the country & states
its bad enough having
to drink all the gunk
all the chemicals they use to get rid of the gunk
then theres all the other poisons
all the dead animals
but the worst for me to really swallow is
all the poor little aborted babies that go down the loo!!!!!
i will leave the state first or the country