Holy crap! California gears up to vote
on converting toilet water to tap water
BizPac Review,
by
Frieda Powers
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
12/15/2023 3:50:04 PM
In an extreme move to address the climate “crisis” and the state’s infamous water droughts, California may be looking to utilize “toilet to tap” conversions.
In a tentative vote reportedly planned for next week, the California State Water Resources Control Board may vote on a measure that would allow sewage water to be converted into purportedly safe drinking water.
Under the proposed plan, wastewater that is currently treated and released into oceans and rivers, and used for field irrigation, may be “treated at a higher level” and then sent “back into the main water supply over the course of hours to days,” the Washington Examiner reported.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Kate318 12/15/2023 3:58:02 PM (No. 1618020)
What could go wrong?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kono 12/15/2023 4:08:36 PM (No. 1618029)
We might as well all kiss each other's asses, since that wouldn't be all that different from what this represents...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kono 12/15/2023 4:09:02 PM (No. 1618030)
(here, have a fresh glass of ass water...)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/15/2023 4:33:27 PM (No. 1618044)
Would you like a glass of water with your fried crickets?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mushroom 12/15/2023 4:35:41 PM (No. 1618046)
I get the concept, and in a perfect world it may be fine. Sadly humans are running the plants. All we need is a single cholera epidemic to bring it all to a grinding stop. There is a valid reason to go an arrow's flight away when expelling from your body. So as not to reinfect. ONE little mistake and it all falls apart. Want to guarantee that?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/15/2023 4:46:46 PM (No. 1618057)
Well? What's so impossible about that? My cat prefers tap water to spring water. I don't know why, but he does. If I don't keep the toilet lid down, he'll sneak away and get himself 95% inside the toilet, drinking his fill, until I physically lift him out of his magic fountain.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 12/15/2023 4:59:03 PM (No. 1618068)
Dogs do it all the time and they don't even complain. But I ain't no dog.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/15/2023 5:10:12 PM (No. 1618075)
Can excrement burgers be far behind? I wanted to use the "t" word but they wouldn't let me. LOL
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
southernboy 12/15/2023 5:31:02 PM (No. 1618089)
This is a state that borders the PACIFIC OCEAN!!! Desalination is old technology!
Gee whiz, people!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 12/15/2023 5:57:54 PM (No. 1618112)
I have news for ya'll....... every drop of water pulled from a river, stream, lake, ocean has "waste" in it. Any rain water has absorbed whatever is in the air as that rain drop falls. Every drop of clean drinking water has been filtered, either artificially or by nature. Every drop of water on the planet has been recycled.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 12/15/2023 6:27:29 PM (No. 1618133)
But #6, your cat might like the piquancy of toilet water, but he also likes catching mice and batting them around before the final kill. Surely cat behavior, while interesting and even fascinating, isn't enviable to the point of imitating???
See. California has gone over the brink, saving the snail darters or something, turning the Central Valley, once wonderful farms and orchards, into a wasteland (and haven of illegals).
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 12/15/2023 6:29:43 PM (No. 1618138)
Well why not drink it? Apparently they love walking around in it based on the poop map.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Mike2C 12/15/2023 6:40:42 PM (No. 1618171)
Wichita Falls TX has been doing that for a few years now. The route from treatment to a fresh-water lake used for our water supply is several miles. Haven't had any deaths that I know of.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/15/2023 6:44:02 PM (No. 1618176)
Soylent Green cannot be far behind.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Johann 12/15/2023 6:56:13 PM (No. 1618193)
Singapore is doing this pee-to-potable water and it has been a success. Not that I would want to drink it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/15/2023 8:10:47 PM (No. 1618258)
That first slerp out of the bottle out to be a real leap of faith, no?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
konocti95 12/15/2023 10:57:11 PM (No. 1618341)
Hate to break it to ya....unless you live on top of a snowy mountain someone or something is peeing in your water. But we really need to be careful to maintain our purity of essence.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Muguy 12/16/2023 7:31:02 AM (No. 1618478)
This is why cities and municipalities have WATER TREATMENT PLANTS--
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 12/16/2023 11:59:53 AM (No. 1618637)
Thank You #10.
For years I've been trying to tell that to anyone who would listen. I just love ( s/o ) the commercials that
tout 'water, nothing can replace it' inferring that once water goes down the drain, or on the lawn or
all over the car, it is gone forever and there is only so much water on the planey that is potable !!
Bull squeeze. We have this wonderful process called evaporation and condensation that rains ( pun intended )
distilled water on the planet all the time in quantities that are hard to grasp. EVERY drop of water, except
the few gallons urinated into in space by astronauts, that was on this planed 100,000 years ago IS STILL HERE !
Do the math on how much water is deposited on just 100 acres by a ONE INCH rain. Now calculate a square MILE. The numbers are breath taking !!
I would like to believe ( but can't ) that only in California could someone, figurative if not literally, decide that they need to start collecting and cleaning waste water ( sewage ) to avoid a water shortage while sitting on the edge of the Pacific Ocean !!
We're doomed !
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That is just disgusting!! A desalination plant converting Pacific Ocean water to potable Water would be less expensive and less stomach turning. And you know that NONE of the pee water will find its way into the taps of Pelosi, Newsome or any of the Hollywood crowd!!