Todd wrote:
On 03/02/2014 10:58 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Todd wrote:
On 03/02/2014 01:41 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Todd wrote:

Not a real good argument. Her is why I say so:

I work for a pump company, meaning wells. There are
rules as to how deep you well need to go so you
don't pick up harmful bacteria from surface water,
including dog poop from our lawns.

That is why a deep well with water from aquifer
with centuries old water in it is so pure.

I am much more confident of mother natures cleaning
mechanism than mans. I will drink the deep aquifer
water flowing out of Lake Tahoe centuries ago.
You can drink the reclaimed toilet water with all
the pharmaceuticals in it.

Our water here tastes better than any bottled water
I have ever come across. And yes, it may have been
dino **** at one time, but it has spent millions of
years percolating through the ground being cleaned
up by mother nature.

-T

So you don't trust science but only what is "natural", this is just
another way of expressing the same emotional reaction as
eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww.

You ignore the fact that getting good water out of deep aquifers is
relatively uncommon worldwide, the majority of domestic supply is
from surface water. Cattle shit in the river at my place which is
the source of town water 15km downstream. You ignore the cases
(say in Europe) where so many people in different countries use
the big rivers for so many purposes they are effectively sewers
and yet those downstream must drink it as there is nothing else.

Recycled water is treated and quality tested before going into the
system the same as any other. Water engineers and microbiologists
have been doing this for a long time it isn't some new untried
procedure. It is little wonder governments cannot make sensible
decisions when so many of their constituents hold these irrational
views. If it is any comfort you are probably in the majority.

D

Look up the history typhoid

Why? Please point out the relevance.

D

Hi David,

Typhoid was caused by toilet water. When this was
discovered, clean water became all the range and
stopped the disease.


A large number of diseases are caused by contamination of drinking water
with microbes, typhoid is just one. This is why all public reticulated
water needs both correct treatment and constant testing to make sure the
treatment is working regardless of its origin. How do you suppose the
people down river from me survive? Re-cycled sewerage is no different from
river or lake water except in the kind of treatment. Apparently Singapore
uses re-cycled sewerage and the quality is said to be better than from other
sources. There are two reasons this is not (yet) common: cost is one, many
users having your reaction is the other.

D