BleepingComputer.com: Recycled Effluent As Drinking Water.

BlackSpyder, on May 22 2007, 06:14 AM, said:

Sure we are right on the Ocean,'BlackSpyder' That is one reason that Desalination might be an answer. We are not allowed in Sydney to have water tanks for drinking,whatsoever.Drink City water only, which smells like wet Dog.I have been buying all bottled drinking water for the last 5 yrs.In the country,no problem.You can have as many Tanks for drinking as one cares to buy.All the run off from all buildings on your property run straight into these tanks.This water is quite safe to drink as there is next to no pollution to contaminate the water.

I don't think I want to.
The People aboard the ISS (Int'l Space station ) will/do.

Quote

http://www.challenger.org/students/careers...?profiled_id=18

Dont know about "down under", but the water softener people around here ( up over ? ) advertise small units that fit under your sink and are "reverse osmosis" , use two filters I believe and has it's own spout , or there's those Brita water pitchers (the ones that fit on the faucet don't impress me much) that get rid of "stuff" ( lead, wet dog smell , etc. ) . Or you could always add "enough" Alcohol to your drinking water ,Anything it doesn't kill , you probably wouldn't care about anyways

no one, on May 21 2007, 05:50 PM, said:

I had one when I lived in Nashvilleand it worked great. I brought it home to Huddleston and gave it to my Dad who has excessive Lead and Rest in his water and it plugged up in a week. So he switched to bottled water. (He even has an industrial water softener for his house that has to have the softener package changed out yearly)

Glad to live in the South were the water is tasty. I even live near a spring where I can drive my atv down there and get water any time I want free. Its a old WW2 spring I was told or something to do with the war and they got water there.

I feel badly even mentioning this, DSTM - but hopefully the bottle water you will be buying in the future is bottled from a 'clean' water source. Apparently a lot of the bottled one available is literally filled from someone's tap and sadly there will likely be a far amount of people doing this if the recycled effluent system goes ahead.

I am ever so curious about something ... why on earth would it be a no no to collect water into tanks within Sydney city limits. Surely if one could use the system many farmers do (run off from roofs, etc directly into an underground cistern) it would not blight the beauty of the city in any way, yet would at least be a small step in helping with the water situation.

After reading the water smells like 'wet dog' - hopefully that odor fades shortly after use or gracious, it would give new meaning to the term 'wet head' when everyone leaps out of the shower before heading to work. Gentle smile.

MaraM, on May 22 2007, 03:03 PM, said:

Whenever you have the Human Element including Governments,the chance of corruption is Real.IMO.
I feel unless an alternative Water supply is found soon,we wont need any Brita Filters,'no one'Like your Alcohol fix.
Making water safe daily for 20+ Million people from Sewerage would require a lot of Microbioligists,which isn't going to happen.
I came across a link where a simple machine can make 44,000 Gallons or 166,588 Litres of pure drinking water Daily.
My point is why couldn't one of these Machines be designed on a Grand scale? The answer is it could be made.
You don't realize how important Water is until you haven't got enough.
Here's an interesting read.
http://www.searecovery.com/

http://www.searecovery.com/watermakers/whatsro.html

This town Goulbourn,2 hrs drive from Sydney Has 20,000+ Population.No water.All has to be trucked in.This is the cities main water supply.

This post has been edited by DSTM: 22 May 2007 - 06:08 AM

Wow, just reading the article and looking at that parched land made me make a promise to myself - to stop complaining about the seemingly near-constant rain we get where I live!