Why are people so squicked out about "Toilet to Tap" / reclaimed water when it basically already works that way?
Why are people so squicked out about "Toilet to Tap" / reclaimed water when it basically already works that way?
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?
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Same reason I don't go to the butchery to watch my sausage get made. Just do it and don't tell me.
I don't understand that either
Cheap sausages here are commonly referred to as 'lips and assholes' or 'hooves and sawdust'. We're pretty blunt about these things.
here
Where?
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?
Definitely not everywhere. I'm from the Midwest and I've never heard of sausages, cheap or otherwise, referred to as "lips and assholes" or "hooves and sawdust". Lol.
New Zealand
That's pretty critical information. Lol.
Thank you.