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re: California’s new toilet to tap water program
Posted on 7/12/23 at 12:58 pm to jimmy the leg
Posted on 7/12/23 at 12:58 pm to jimmy the leg
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Always the shite-stirrer.
I had a giant Taco Bell burrito, and a large drink in solidarity with the thought of shitting out a nice glass of water for Hanky next time he visits California.
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Posted on 7/12/23 at 1:08 pm to Kjnstkmn
California is crazy for a lot of their ideas but this is not of them. This isn’t even a new idea. Direct water reuse plants have been installed in a lot of places around the world that have water scarcity issues. The oldest direct potable water reuse plant was built in the 1960s in Namibia.
El Paso is starting construction this year on a purification plant that will turn wastewater into potable water.
El Paso is starting construction this year on a purification plant that will turn wastewater into potable water.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 1:15 pm to TexasTiger86
Great way to have people buy more plastic water bottles, so they can piss and moan about pollution, right? Nobody sane drinks water out of the tap in El Paso, or anywhere around there. Coming from an Alamogordo resident for 5 years.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 1:52 pm to troyt37
I don’t know any specifics about El Paso water but in general, there is a difference between safe drinking water and good tasting drinking water. Not all safe drinking water tastes good because there could be some dissolved solids in the water that will change the taste of the water. For example, I don’t like the drinking water in places like Houston because the water is harder.
Some plants may include processes that will change the taste, color or odor of the water to make it more palatable but the main goal for most water treatment plants is to produce safe drinking water for the public.
Some plants may include processes that will change the taste, color or odor of the water to make it more palatable but the main goal for most water treatment plants is to produce safe drinking water for the public.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 1:59 pm to jimmy the leg
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Always the shite-stirrer.
But how would you feel being the client he's billing during his constant presence on tRant?
40k posts and most are during a work day/week. Sure translates to quite a few billable hours.
On second thought, he's probably a public attorney on the tax payer dole. Guess that makes him a professional troll.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:04 pm to Kjnstkmn
I have no idea if this make ecological or financial sense.
But if they're using proper reverse osmosis they could put the intake straight into a toilet with a turd floating in it, and it's going to come out cleaner than your tap.
But if they're using proper reverse osmosis they could put the intake straight into a toilet with a turd floating in it, and it's going to come out cleaner than your tap.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:08 pm to TexasTiger86
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safe drinking water
You realize the government sets these standards, right?
This is the same government that said the drinking water was safe at numerous military installations for years...
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:10 pm to TexasTiger86
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Not all safe drinking water tastes good
Truth. Ask any soldier who's had to use iodine tablets. You just chug the hell out of it and try to ignore the taste.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:12 pm to Kjnstkmn
In Manhatten Beach, which is a higher priced zip code than parts of Beverly Hills, there is a surf area the surfers call shite pipe because well...it dumps shite into the ocean
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Back in September, Dockweiler State Beach in between Manhattan and Playa del Rey was closed due to a disgusting dump of used condoms, tampon applicators, and hypodermic needles. The dump was the result of a storm that forced the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant to divert 200 million gallons of waste to a sewage pipe nearby, which is aptly known by surfers as “shite pipe.”
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Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:21 pm to TexasTiger86
When I lived there 25 years ago, it was called “caliche” in southern New Mexico and west Texas. Coming from God’s country in Arkansas, where the water is clean, clear, and even tasty, the water there was not drinkable.
As far as safe? According to whom? Estrogen levels in drinking water continue to rise, but nobody seems to know what level is acceptable. So the drinking water produced is safe according to what they test for. That doesn’t mean it’s safe.
As far as safe? According to whom? Estrogen levels in drinking water continue to rise, but nobody seems to know what level is acceptable. So the drinking water produced is safe according to what they test for. That doesn’t mean it’s safe.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:22 pm to The Maj
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This is the same government that said the drinking water was safe at numerous military installations for years...
...and now we have all these commercials mispronouncing "Lejuene."
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:28 pm to Kjnstkmn
quote:then why not just fricking use ocean water to begin with?
and finally uses [reverse osmosis] membranes to purify the water, just as in a desalination plant.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:30 pm to Kjnstkmn
Sniff the recycled waters that are being used for irrigation out in Palm Springs and Palm Desert, etc. and how people will walk great distances in the heat to avoid the puddles.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:32 pm to tigerfan 64
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Shouldn't this water be sent to industrial and farm users first to limit what they pull from other drinking supplies?
Nahhhhhhhhhhh. Right to the faucet. Screw California. I hope the purification machines glitch every now and then and they get some water discoloration.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:36 pm to troyt37
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What’s backwards is spending millions or billions making diarrhea, piss, and flushed medication water potable, rather than building facilities to hold some of the trillions of gallons of fresh clean water that they allow to flow into the ocean. You’re nothing if not purposefully ignorant, Hanky.
We gotta protect that Delta Smelt at all costs. The forest fires and drinking filtered shite water are just two of the costs California is willing to pay for that minnow.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 3:01 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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We gotta protect that Delta Smelt at all costs. The forest fires and drinking filtered shite water are just two of the costs California is willing to pay for that minnow.
The sarcasm is palpable in your post. I have to wonder what possible damage to the smelt could be done by drawing off and saving a few hundred million gallons of the billions of gallons California let’s flow into the ocean every year.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 3:50 pm to Kjnstkmn
Reminds me of AOC at the border.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 3:57 pm to Kjnstkmn
You are what you drink
Posted on 7/13/23 at 8:12 am to troyt37
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The sarcasm is palpable in your post. I have to wonder what possible damage to the smelt could be done by drawing off and saving a few hundred million gallons of the billions of gallons California let’s flow into the ocean every year.
There was more than a small amount of sarcasm in there.
If the greenies in California are truly concerned with the smelt (or any other critter), they can take measures to ensure that damming up rivers and making reservoirs doesn't result in the smelt's extinction. They've taken the mother nature excuse to consequential extremes. Now they get to drink shite water and deal with uncontrolled forest fires.
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