Background Info:
Recent events and news about water scarcity got me thinking about this. So the question is essentially the title. Or am I missing something?
If you live anywhere that uses a sewer system rather than septic tanks, isn’t it already doing that?
In my area, the water company pulls in from the river, filters and processes it, and pipes it out to homes. It gets used in the homes, discharged into the sewer to a treatment plant, treated, and then pumped back into the river.
Even if your water company’s intake is before the sewage treatment plant, the next town’s intake is downstream. So if you’re not drinking your neighbor’s processed toilet water, you’re drinking that of the town upstream.
Is getting mixed with river water simply enough to “dilute” the ick-factor here, or is there something I’m missing?
An inability to think past knee-jerk emotions. It’s a common problem.
Having had water in a somewhat arid country that pretty much did “toilet to tap” after treatment let me tell you that the smell is hard to get rid of. Your water still smells like shit. And drinking it was a gamble of you were going to get sick or not. All the local markets sold bottled water by the flat tray. Even the locals knew not to drink the tap water.
Same reason I don’t go to the butchery to watch my sausage get made. Just do it and don’t tell me.
Cheap sausages here are commonly referred to as ‘lips and assholes’ or ‘hooves and sawdust’. We’re pretty blunt about these things.
Probably everywhere. Here in the NorthEast US, I’ve heard plenty of people describe hot dogs that way. I mean, come on, you throw all the leftover bits and pieces into the grinder to make sausage: what bit and pieces end up in the cheapest sausage?
Listen imma level with you bro, if they are genuinely calling it “toilet to tap”, and you dont get why people might find that a little off-putting, then i dont think this thread has anything for you.
Poor branding aside, it doesn’t really change anything, though. But yeah.
I at least appreciate the honesty in the naming rather than some marketing doublespeak. That said, I’d be okay with it if they called it “astronaut water” or something lol.
Poor branding aside, it doesn’t really change anything, though.
Branding is everything when it comes to the masses. Ideas live or die because of their marketing.
Lol, I hate that you’re right :sigh:
Anyone who’s passed 5th grade science would know that water is fine, but that’s asking too much of more people than I’d care to imagine.
If you’re in the Boston area or nearby suburbs the all the sewage goes to the Deer Island treatment plant which eventually pumps the treated water out into the Atlantic…
