What happens to human waste after we flush the toilet?

Question

I am being serious...this is not a joke or anything for people being rude...

I would really want to know what happens to that brown stuff...I wonder if it mixes with clean water in treatment plants. I mean, water we drink had to come from a treatment plant....anyways
thankz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_waste

Answer 1

here at least,the waste goes to the treatment site ,is liquidised,any solids(cotton buds and stuff) removed by a coarse filter and put in a large pond to settle.The semi clean water is drained off and sprayed over a filtration medium,such as gravel or stone chips where bacteria dine on any organic particles (poo).The very near clean water is drained off into the environment at which point it is probably cleaner than the river it goes into
The sludge that remains can be used for agricultural fertiliser or burnt as a fuel substitute
Basically thats it

Answer 2

one would think there were more people who knew the answer to this.

a water treatment plant is the other end of the sewer treatment plant.

Water treatment plants take water from reservoirs fed by springs and rain. They add things to make and keep it potable and distribute it to the tax payers.

the taxpayers use it up and most goes into the sewer to the sewer treatment plant. They use various methods including aireation to cause bacteria to "eat" the waste. They let it settle out, pipe the clean water out to the local streams, possibly treating with something before releasing it, scrap up the sludge and use it for fertilizer.

It is all recycled.

Here's a couple of tips
Use your water twice. Put a plastic 10 qt. tub in the shower. when it is full, take the top off your toilet, flush it and dump the water into the tank when the flapper closes.

When it is yellow, let it mellow
When it is brown, flush it down.

each "none" flush saves 1.6 GAL of water.

four none flushes a day saved yields 2336 GALLONS per year saved. That's about 1 month worth of water.

Answer 3

Depends if you have septic or sewer.
Septic basically leeches itself into the ground where its naturally filtered
sewer goes to treatment plants and as far as I know its released back into the environment once treated

Answer 4

what happens is it goes in the sewer wich goes to the ocean and then tubes take in water and the tubes are the same size as the sewer tubes and the water runs the filters then igoes threw rocks then it gets this certain chemical that kills all the bad germs but most of them are gone

Answer 5

It begins the long journey to the sea via the sewage treatment plant.

Answer 6

sooner or later it comes back to you.

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Answer 7

it goes into the ocean

Answer 8

nothing