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Recent events and news about water scarcity got me thinking about this. So the question is essentially the title. Or am I missing something?

If you live anywhere that uses a sewer system rather than septic tanks, isn’t it already doing that?

In my area, the water company pulls in from the river, filters and processes it, and pipes it out to homes. It gets used in the homes, discharged into the sewer to a treatment plant, treated, and then pumped back into the river.

Even if your water company’s intake is before the sewage treatment plant, the next town’s intake is downstream. So if you’re not drinking your neighbor’s processed toilet water, you’re drinking that of the town upstream.

Is getting mixed with river water simply enough to “dilute” the ick-factor here, or is there something I’m missing?

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Poor branding aside, it doesn’t really change anything, though.

    Branding is everything when it comes to the masses. Ideas live or die because of their marketing.

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      4 months ago

      Lol, I hate that you’re right :sigh:

      Anyone who’s passed 5th grade science would know that water is fine, but that’s asking too much of more people than I’d care to imagine.

      • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        If you had never heard of the actual things before, the following names are terrible.

        Would you sign up for a planned, injectable micro infection?

        or use a body restrainer strap in a car? A car equipped with an explosive skull decelerating dynamic catchment system?

        Just saying, naming of things matters