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madokie

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3. My step son works in a fresh water treatment plant
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 08:14 AM
Sep 2012

and he put it best when he said no matter we are drinking the cities upstream from us waste water whether we want to admit it to ourselves or not. How the system works is water is brought into a fresh water plant from the rivers or streams and treated then it is used by us however and then it goes to the wastewater plant where it is again treated then returned to the river or creek. Only thing is we're not drinking our own waste water rather the cities upstream of us.
Not many cities use aquifers for their sole source of fresh water. Around here anyway.

How I see it anyway

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