Why do we recycle sewage water? it just doesn't seem hygienic
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xjimmyloudx
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Don't visit the Space Station, if you really feel that way, because up there, urine is turned into potable drinking water. Can you imagine having a pouch of water, knowing that it was once someone's urine? +5
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I agree. Although it goes through an intense purification process it's not possible to remove 100% of the bacteria and just the thought of it is enough for me to avoid drinking it.
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That's what all the animals in the ocean think when RAW sewage is dumped into the ocean by so many countries.
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There is a certain amount of water on earth -- recycling it is necessary.
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We recycle sewage water because there is no more water being created on the planet. The Earth itself is a giant water purification engine, in a way. Water evaporates, becomes rain/clouds... falls... ends up in a lake or as part of a snow cap on a mountain which then melts and heads down to where someone or some animal drinks it and pees it back out. Where it wanders around either as moisture on the ground or in a river or lake or underground somewhere until it evaporates and becomes rain/clouds... falls.. ends up in a lake... etc. etc. It's the circle of pee!
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discovery channel......
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In the end, it's all recycled water.
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Much better recycled than just left around. If you don't treat it, you have a huge pool of infectious stinking sewage. You have to treat it for safety; by the time it is properly treated, it is safe to recycle. That is all that nature does: all we have done is taken the processes nature uses to recycle sewage, concentrated them into a treatment plant, and speeded them up. If we hadn't done so, our cities would be stinking death traps - which is what they were until the middle of the 19th century.
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