[Newsbot]

Title: Drought forces Texas city to turn to toilets for tap water
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Zipperfish
Date: 2014-05-12 09:05:23

[Zipperfish]

"Toilet to tap" drinking water!

Funny, I read a report from NOAA from 2012 stating that the 2011 drought was just one-in-150-year anomaly.

Here's teh Lake Travis boat ramp!

[andyt]

I was under the impression that a lot of places do this. Certainly in the sense of sending treatment output downriver to be taken in for drinking water at the next town.

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

I was under the impression that a lot of places do this. Certainly in the sense of sending treatment output downriver to be taken in for drinking water at the next town.

It's not unheard of--the difference in this case is a pipe directly from the sewage treatment plant to the water purification plant--no discharge to a water body.

[BartSimpson]

This is no big deal. People drink toilet-to-tap all the time. It's not like woodland creatures restrain themselves when they're crossing creeks or rivers or etc.

[DrCaleb]

Now, if it were Calgary; they'd take all that new lake land and let people build houses there.

If sewage recycling is good enough for Astronauts, it aught to be good enough for the rest of us. I just hope there are no mistakes in that plant.

[Zipperfish]

Well, they don't have much choice. I'd be a little concerned--anything that isn't removed by the wastewater treatment plant will accumulate in the feedback loop. There's not much concern for the known culprits like bacteria (E. coli). The bigger concern would be your difficult-to-treat contaminants that are in minute concentrations--pharmaceuaticals, persistent polychlorinated/polyfluorinated compounds, etc.

[andyt]

Yep. That's already a problem in many places.

"We would rather drink our own sewage than accept that commie idea of global warming."

[DrCaleb]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

There's not much concern for the known culprits like bacteria (E. coli). The bigger concern would be your difficult-to-treat contaminants that are in minute concentrations--pharmaceuaticals, persistent polychlorinated/polyfluorinated compounds, etc.

Actually, when I wrote that I was thinking "Walkerton, ONIO".

[N_Fiddledog]

andyt andyt:

Yep. That's already a problem in many places.

"We would rather drink our own sewage than accept that commie idea of global warming."

I think if you look around the world you'll discover Communists do very little about global warming. It is not a Communist idea. Global Warming is more a "Progressive" idea. As is drinking your own sewage, I imagine.

[Zipperfish]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Actually, when I wrote that I was thinking "Walkerton, ONIO".

Good point.

[andyt]

Those people in Texas are progs? Say it isn't so.

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

Yep. That's already a problem in many places.

"We would rather drink our own sewage than accept that commie idea of global warming."

Maybe that's why they're praying for rain in San Angelo...

Drought takes emotional toll; some praying for rain

[stratos]

It would also help if they would open up the upper dams and let some water flow down river. They don't and state it is because their lakes are also low. In truth they are but in many cases less then 2 feet lower then normal. One reason for not opening the dams is there as been a long standing attempt to drive out the rice farms from central and lower Texas. By not releasing water from up river via the dam's they are attempting to force the rice farmers out of Texas.

[Regina]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

"Toilet to tap" drinking water!

Funny, I read a report from NOAA from 2012 stating that the 2011 drought was just one-in-150-year anomaly.

Here's teh Lake Travis boat ramp!

That's just vandalism. Some kids moved the ramp..........probably engineering students, they do that shit all the time.