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2018-03-15 Home Front: Politix
California is the Future: Recycled sewer water and mountains of debris
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-15 02:33|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 a sewer-to-reservoir operation

"E-coli for everybody!"
"It's not just for golf courses or lettuce anymore."
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-15 08:24||   2018-03-15 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 California is like watching some jumbled mix of the movies "Ground Hog's Day" and "Idiocracy" or "Titanic" in slo-mo.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-03-15 08:49||   2018-03-15 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 The homeless camp cleanup offers a few economic insights: The amount of trash indicates that the dwellers are feverish consumers, and we all know consumption is what lefty economists believe keeps the economy afloat. The needles show these camp dwellers are not so much poor as they are "concerned with different recreational modalities..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-15 09:05||   2018-03-15 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 California, leading the way to 3rd world status for the United States.
Posted by AlanC 2018-03-15 10:32||   2018-03-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Not sure about that. Detroit might have a slight lead...
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-03-15 10:33||   2018-03-15 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 It's called toilet-to-tap. Our politicians from Brown on down keep telling us that we must conserve water. Then they tell us we need more affordable housing. After getting bribes from developers these politicians issue the developers water hookup permits for vast housing tracts in which the average house will cost half a million bucks. How is that conserving water? How is that affordable, especially after the county levies the property tax?

Well, the truth is, they lie.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-03-15 10:53||   2018-03-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 I will simply point out that it is only a matter of time before the system fails, and untreated sewer water ends up in the tap to create a public health crisis.

Love LI, and usually Leslie Eastman, another San Diego resident, but she's an ignorant idiot on this. Not all sewage is going to the Pure Water recycling program, it will never supply all SD's needs and it gets blended with Colorado River water at San Vicente reservoir to dilute/diffuse and further expose to UV. By the way - any idea what all the cities and towns upstream of SD on the Colorado River do with their treated water? She's already been drinking treated and diluted waste water
Posted by Frank G 2018-03-15 10:59||   2018-03-15 10:59|| Front Page Top

#8 by the way, the primary treatment plant at Pt. Loma remains in service, even with Pure Water in operation
Posted by Frank G 2018-03-15 11:19||   2018-03-15 11:19|| Front Page Top

#9 I couldn't find a ballpark number in a quick search, but it would be interesting to know the breakdown WRT river / reservoir water vs ground water in the fresh water drinking supply of the US.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-15 11:28||   2018-03-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Git yerself one of them new-fangled nuklear reactors and you can distill all the fresh water you want.
Posted by SteveS 2018-03-15 11:28||   2018-03-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Distilled water is a drag to drink, unless the alternative is dysentery or dehydration. Gimme my dissolved oxygen and touch of mineral salts, please...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-15 11:32||   2018-03-15 11:32|| Front Page Top

#12 twist of lemon would be nice also and none of that crappy slushy ice either! I want clear cubes no cloudy ice please :)
Posted by Warthog 2018-03-15 11:37||   2018-03-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#13 A little tequila, lime, and salt will take care of the flavor problem.
Or just drink Brawndo(tm). It's got electrolytes.
Posted by SteveS 2018-03-15 11:39||   2018-03-15 11:39|| Front Page Top

#14 And I suppose the "water scene" from Dr. Strangelove needs a mention too...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-15 11:43||   2018-03-15 11:43|| Front Page Top

#15 All sewer water is recycled. It's just a matter of how.
Posted by AuburnTom 2018-03-15 11:47||   2018-03-15 11:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Yeah, well, San Diego has some excellent breweries too.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-03-15 12:20||   2018-03-15 12:20|| Front Page Top

#17 Here in Carlsbad we have a desalinization plant that could provide 10% of our water needs (or something like that). Suddenly half of San Diego was thinking they could share as if it was an endless supply.

Build for the future you dorks.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-15 12:28||   2018-03-15 12:28|| Front Page Top

#18 Across the bridge from Vigilucci's, rj.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-03-15 13:11||   2018-03-15 13:11|| Front Page Top

#19 Recycled waste water works on the ISS. It'll be interesting to see if some tech genius could make a toilet that does the same for household use.

It'd have to be unique in appearance to allow for proper virtue signaling in order to succeed though, unless they can get the California government to mandate the things.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-15 14:57||   2018-03-15 14:57|| Front Page Top

#20 Git yerself one of them new fangled nooclear reactors and it will KILL all of thet thar E. coli and virii. Fact.
Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-15 15:43||   2018-03-15 15:43|| Front Page Top

#21 Sum tekgeenyus already done that #19. The never be damned enough gvt god I hate them soooo much already blocked that. Hate them. Hate them. X 1000
Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-15 15:47||   2018-03-15 15:47|| Front Page Top

#22 RNA and DNA do not survive intense gamma exposure. So no downstream grow though. God I hate the gvt.
Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-15 15:49||   2018-03-15 15:49|| Front Page Top

#23 Sorry all. I am deeply invested in clear water, and find all o& this distressing.
Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-15 15:54||   2018-03-15 15:54|| Front Page Top

#24 God I hate the gvt.
Posted by Blackbeard Bumble

Wait till you get to be an old man. You'll begin to experience uncontrolled fits of mouth foaming.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-15 17:02||   2018-03-15 17:02|| Front Page Top

#25 As if this audience needed instruction:

Why You Definitely Shouldn't Drink Your Own Pee
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-15 17:09||   2018-03-15 17:09|| Front Page Top

#26 Hah, you know i’m 70. Ish. How old is old. Is that what the white speckles on my chin are? And the water recycling system on ISS is mine. Partly, the part that makes it work anyway.
Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-15 20:02||   2018-03-15 20:02|| Front Page Top

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