We need to start drinking recycled wastewater
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#2lovely
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#3I genuinely do not understand the aversion to drinking recycled water. It's all recycled water!
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#4The article mentions mass desalination, but it doesn't actually go into how impractical it is compared to recycling wastewater.
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#5Most tap water in Germany is "recycled" water. I think this goes for most of Europe?
Drinking tap water and adding your on carbonate is even a thing here (German use the word as synonym for carbonated water).
"If anything, recycled wastewater is relatively sweet" - Said no tap water drinker ever
There are still worlds between the US and Europe..
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#6> finding that while 49% were willing to try recycled wastewater, 13% refused, and the rest weren't sure.
This is the end result of an education system that has not prepared people for the modern world, if we engineer a solution that produces water of a purity greater than water from a reservoir and and half of people are still not sure it is safe to drink then we have a massive problem.
For the record: I've no issue with grey water recovery systems, every drop of water I've ever drank has been through at least a few fish in it's time.
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#7Sounds like this needs a brand change. "Recycled" kind of implies that there is still something "left behind".
Why not call it BluWater or something simple and marketing-like? Follow up with some blah text like "BluWater is the freshest and cleanest water humanity has ever drank! You can get it straight from the taps!"
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#8Sounds like this needs a brand change. "Recycled" kind of implies that there is still something "left behind". Why not call it BluWater or something simple and marketing-like? Follow up with some blah text like "BluWater is the freshest and cleanest water humanity has ever drank! You can get it straight from the taps!"
Disturbingly, your extremely condescending idea is probably exactly the kind of thing that would actually work.
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#9I genuinely do not understand the aversion to drinking recycled water. It's all recycled water!
Tell that to the homoeopaths /s
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#10Singapore has invested a lot of tech into this as the Malaysia keeps fucking with their water supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater