The Greens oppose water recycling

I am in London at the moment and the water tastes bad, like Adelaide water. Lime they say, so don’t base here as a basis of some comparision. But I cannot see any problem using recycled water, my fear though is as others have pointed out there is a water cycle. Once we start messing with that even more, using tanks, using recycled water etc, we start upsetting the balance downstream. That I think is the main problem with the whole idea.

Prof Troy (Pat to his mates) has this to say about the ACT Government’s recycling plan:
“child like”.

He said “…consumers should be helped to slash domestic consumption through a greater use of recycled water within the home for showers, washing and sanitary purposes while European ideas such as dry compost toilets installed in homes by governments might be considered.”.

Often simple solutions can be the most effective. Perhaps Jon should offer to buy each ACT household a brick to shove in its loo?

But Territorians being such impractical types, I guess he’d need to give instructions too!

http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=environment&story_id=553464&category=environment

You didn’t happen to lose a frog recently, did you smokey2?

“Open your mouth and I’ll piss into it.”

Isn’t that the title of a German movie?

Incidentally, I observed a system like this operating in Coffs Harbour over christmas. There is a servo in the main street that sells local spring water by anything from half a litre up to many litres.

I don’t drink tap water, as I prefer sparkling mineral (or soda) water.

The shop-brand (Woolies or Coles) costs me about 1000 times as much as tap water (60-70 cents per litre), but it’s a price i’m willing to pay. Presumably the majority of that cost is logistic cost — bottling, transport, shelf stacking etc.

What we need is for the Government to retain a small dam upstream of the Cotter (Corin, Bendora) that contains only catchment water (not recycled). If they pump into the Cotter, then this happens anyway.

They could then sell this water to commercial companies for drinking purposes. You drop into your local service station and refill your own bottle or drum, thus reducing transport and bottling costs.

A carbonation machine, possibly at point-of-sale, could carbonate water for those who like it fizzy.

I’ve tried home carbonation — with a soda bulb — but the water always has a taint.

London and much of Europe may have recycled water, but many of the locals do not drink it.

A leading proponent of getting on the piss (literally) is based sort of near Canberra … in Bermagui.

Recycled water would be great for your garden, with all that poo in it.

I tasted the water that came out of my “envirocycle” system, just out of interest .
Not like a glassful, just a wet fingertip.
It was for want of a better word ” fresh ” .
The maker of the system warns against this by the way.

I would assume that whatever system was put in place would get rid of that freshness .

The horses love the grass that it sprinkles on and off during the day.

Open your mouth and I’ll piss into it.

I think the whole ‘debate’ around drinking recycled water shows just how stupid and fearful our society really is. Consider the number of animals, insects and fish that already urinate, defecate and die in our drinking water. This water has, of course, fallen as rain and washed into the rivers over yet more piss, poo and dead stuff. The water may have evaporated from the ocean, plant materials, or even from the open sewage treatment ponds.

It’s called the water cycle, and it’s a fundamental part of nature. Water is kinda like energy – it doesn’t really get created or destroyed, it just moves from place to place and it’s form changes.

If we can find an effective process by which to remove impurities from water such that the end product is sufficiently ‘clean’, where the hell’s the problem. That’s what nature does anyway!

Ghandi happily chugga-lugged a glass of his steaming every morning – though he did tend to look a bit wizened and a strange colour.

I was hoping that we’d get to drink other people’s urine as a way of saving water.

I’ll be happy to first in line to drink recycled potable water… want to vote for me next time?

Even with their media release they are still on the back foot as it appears that they would rather be in a grip of a crisis before actually taking any proactive action. I will guarantee you it is cheaper to implement a full recycling solution now than go half arsed for a solution that is simply used for lawns and ovals and upgrade it later.

Am I? That’ll make my mother, who lives in Florida, very happy.

I presume you’ll be voting then by deed poll WMD, on account of you are in America.

As long as it passes health tests (which undoubtedly it would before it was available as potable water) who really gives a flying f&^K.

As for her comment “This is an alarmist approach because nobody really wants to drink sewage,” – Whilst this is technically true it really adds no value to her argument since the topic surrounds treated sewage water.

I’ll admit it – I voted Greens at the last election (well, them and the free-range chook folk). If they oppose water recycling for human consumption, it’ll be the last time.

I would think ‘alarmist’ would be suggesting drinking recylcled water is somehow dirty, when it is actually safe.

Wouldn’t it be more alarmist to poo-poo an idea that really does sit well with your parties philosphies? No, thats just stupid.

Again, the allegedly green representative showing her lack of ‘green’ to the point that its blatantly obvious.

Yes they are being alarmist, and yes they could do other things with it such as using it within industrial applications only, but Foskey has been smoking too much ‘green’. She’s no longer coherent.