Let's Talk Crap!
Big hoo ha on Today Tonight about how Australians are drinking recycled water "and they don't even know".
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Well if you can't tell the difference what the hell are you complaining about???
Does it taste different?
Is it making you sick?
Is it killing anyone?
No! So shut up!
"But we're drinking sewerage!! That's disgusting!"
Whine whine whine!
You are not drinking sewerage! Definition of sewerage: the waste matter that passes through sewers. If you were drinking sewerage, you'd know! It'd be brown, it would smell like shit, and you'd be riddled with E coli (amongst other things).
Recycled water may have been sewerage in a previous life, but it has been filtered, then filtered again, then put through reverse osmosis, then treated. It's pretty safe.
So quit your whining and drink up!
(Of course this is all coming from a Melbournian. We apparently have the best tasting tap water in the world.)
Labels: Recycled water, Stupid people
Agreed. What's so special about water that's fallen in a remote, possibly polluted catchment areas and treated less rigourously than recycled water, and then piped hundreds of k's through aging pipes? Should be using more of the water we have, more efficiently, and more times.
News At 11: Everyone drinking water recycled through process of "Evaporation" and "Precipitation". More details to after the break.
Sheesh.
(and yeah, Melbourne tap water is about the best I've tasted)
Just send them over to Malaysia. Filtered-water central...
Or Singapore, where drinking recycled water is the norm. People are morons and "current affairs" shows are their moron juice.
(Wow, this was, like, a week ago. Sorry. :P)