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MindPilot

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10. Dumdest idea ever...whoever repeated the phrase "toilet to tap".

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2015, 03:57 PM

May 2015

The foes (being a foe of recycling water seems odd, but whatever) coined the term "toilet-to-tap" and it stuck. And it seems like the media, once again unable to explain simple science, falls back on emotional appeal.

Then lets build pipelines to dump it back in rivers and reservoirs or if that still has too much ick factor, build pipelines to irrigate with it.

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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