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petronius

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7. Interesting idea, and not one we can put off forever. I suspect most water molecules

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Mon May 25, 2015, 02:31 PM

May 2015

have an unsavory experience somewhere in their history - that glass of so-called orange juice this morning may have been dinosaur pee for all you know! It would be interesting to calculate the percentage of Earth's water that passes through a excretory system in any given year/decade/century/millennia...

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From today's LA Times: Toilet to Tap. [View all] CaliforniaPeggy May 2015 OP

Wonder how purified it is. RichGirl May 2015 #1

Fish poop in reservoirs Major Nikon May 2015 #3

Yeah, but fish don't flush their anti-depressants into the resevoirs Matariki May 2015 #9

"Water. Like out of the toilet?" lame54 May 2015 #2

From the article, details on how the water is purified: CaliforniaPeggy May 2015 #4

Seems like I remember Pres. Nixon packman May 2015 #5

Even Nixon succumbed to the "ick factor." CaliforniaPeggy May 2015 #6

Nixon felt about drinking from the toilet Lionel Mandrake May 2015 #11

Interesting idea, and not one we can put off forever. I suspect most water molecules petronius May 2015 #7

Exactly, my dear petronius... CaliforniaPeggy May 2015 #8

Dumdest idea ever...whoever repeated the phrase "toilet to tap". MindPilot May 2015 #10

It's been reality for a long, long time... hunter May 2015 #12

Here's what they're developing up here in WA... countryjake May 2015 #13

I applaud Janicki and Bill Gates for promulgating this fabulous idea! We need it here too. n/t CaliforniaPeggy May 2015 #14