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Will you drink water with recycled sewage content?
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other people do...
its gonna be a fact of life soon. garunteed death and you will drink recycled water GO north queensland and your rain... mmmm fresh drinking water
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It will be interesting to see how Toowoomba responds, i think they are going to vote on this soon??
I wouldnt drink it, I already drink bottled water.
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Drink water??? Of any sort??? You know what fish do in that stuff???
Seriously, people are complaining about petrol prices, but will pay 75 cents a litre for bottled water. I can see water tank and water filter sales escalating for sure.
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If it came down to the last resort, I'd drink recycled water.
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Yes, a lot of other developed countries do and the technology is there to filter it. It tastes no different, has no pathogens ect. I studied this at uni which was a good 5 years ago so the technology has only improved even further. In this country we are going to have to - so get used to it.
There needs to be an education campaign by the government showing these facts, as many people are simply uninformed.
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I don't think a lot of people understand what the the process will actually be. A lot of the fault is with the media. The way they report the situation, is as if recycled water will come straight out of the treatment plants and into our taps. Which, of course, is utter BS.
It will be added to the normal source of water supply (ie. river water) to complement it. If they follow the river upstream from the water treatment plant, there are several towns along the way whose treated effluent already is deposited into the river, which of course eventually makes its way to the drinking water supply. What about the dead animals that float in the dams and rivers? What about the runoff from paddocks laden with cow manure. This is why they treat the water. To make it safe to drink. I personally won't have a problem with it when it happens. And, it is a matter of when, not if. |
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The water that we drink now is already recycled by nature at any rate, dr karl did a spiel on it once, how the earth has not produced new water molecules for quite some time.
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I'm undetered about it!!!
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When water in the Rhine (river in Germany) reaches the ocean it has been 'used' several times. I.E. consumed in some way and returned to the river a few times over.
All the water we use today has been used millions of times throughout history. All the current plan for toowoomba does is skip a few steps in the process... |
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I voted no but if they used a different way to describe it instead of RECYCLED SEWAGE then maybe I would
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I won't drink the tap water stuff we have now (except boiled and in coffee's), so why would I if it came from sewage...
It may be safe but I will buy the bottled stuff thanks........ ![]()
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Trouble with the recycling plant is that it will be built by the lowest tender.
Then run by a private company that will pay the staff very little. |
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Get a rain water tank.
We're on tank as we dont get mains water and i wouldnt have it any other way. Alright so city folk wont be able to have as big a tank as us but it would be worth it. Get a tank for your drinking water and youll never want to drink mains or bottled again. It would also help people use less water if they only had a certain amount of it. You wouldnt waste so much if you had to ration it would you. Quicker showers, more efficient washing machines and so forth. |
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i dunno what if a floaty fesie doesn't get contained .. :P
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Yes I think a name change would be the best
Years ago we did a landscape job at Lilydale Poo farm, apparently the water that went back into the river was cleaner than the actual river water. It would be hard to drink though, especially as driving to the job you could see various stages of settling and a truck collecting the "solids". It's a great idea though, too much water gets wasted |
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The thing that people don't know is that waste and all sorts of stuff have been dumped in our water ways for ages...Not to mention animal effluent...carcasses on the banks etc etc
Its just a mental state....when people have no water they'll get over it...when they realise they have been drinking filth anyway they will realise that wow...now instead of crap being put in our water then treated....the crap will be treated first |
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I really don't see what the hoo har is about.People have to get over this "yuck"factor.How do they get on in space?They drink recycled water,they have to.They've been doin it for years on the space station.
If Toowoomba doesn't get the rain,it'll have to go that way.Just hope the town doesn't suffer a drop in tourism just because of the media's yuck factor,but you can't stop the inevittable. ![]() |
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The funny this is that Choice Magazine (I think) did a test on various brands of bottled water a few months ago and compared the results to tap water in various cities, and more than two thirds of the bottled water actually contained higher levels of harmful bacteria than tap water - and it wasn't only the no-name brands making up that two thirds either, there were some big names as well.
As has been said time and time again, people need to realise that the tap water we currently drink is not that clean. In fact, recycled sewage will actually be cleaner than most other treated water. Bring it on I say.
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I don't drink the bottled water necessarily because I think it is better for me than the tap water here...
I drink it because the tap water here (Morayfield QLD) is disgusting... It smells bad and tastes worse than it smells... A lot of people in my street alone buy bottled water... (so it isn't just me being a sook ![]() I probably would drink the recycled water if I didn't have to know it was recycled... I actually don't know.. it depends on smell and taste personally.. ![]()
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If they are treating effluent then you would think that the government would bring in a standard for the water that specifically comes out of them - As long as it is well monitored then I cannot see the problem. If you are really anal about buy a filter for your tap which should stop 99.9% of bacteria coming through. Chances are most bacteria is killed during the teatment of our current water anyway and the real reason certain suburbs water tastes bad is due to the piping...
So I ticked the 'Yes'... |
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always drink tap water.. bottle water is sometimes more harmful
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i said yes.
as previously said, the water in our dams has heaps of ***** in it already. dead animals, fish doing their business (producing more fish)... :P its all media hype saying its all sewage, and its all new. as long as it treated, which i am sure it will be, its ok by me. i would rather drink recycled water than see many people lose their homes and living for another dam. if the rain isnt falling a dam cant be the solution.
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Err, hang on, we are surrounded by water. SEA WATER! Duh!
![]() If you are going to go through all that trouble treating human waste, why not use sea water, there is plenty and it will never run out!
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Raw water from reservoirs contain a fair amout of crud in them. Treated sewage is similar, although with an elevated salt content. Treated sewerage salt content is nowhere near ocean concentrations so implementing RO technology on what is basically contaminated fresh water would be far easier/cheaper than for salt water. Nothing is wrong with recycled sewage, it is fully treated. And when I say treated, I don't mean that the contaminants are masked so that you don't taste them or get sick from them. They are REMOVED. So the water you drink is pure H2O. |
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You could end up like the Sewer Mutants from Futuama...
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