Amen to that ;-) I shut my older RO system down as the waste ratio was about 7 gallons of waste to make 1 gallon of water at the spigot. Newer systems are quite a bit better but, you have to watch for "spin" on the numbers given by the folks trying to sell the system. If two seemingly identical systems are quite different in price, dig deeper ;-)Originally Posted by Moses Yoder
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
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Water is the new gold. If anyone thinks they don't consume post-waste water, then they are only fooling themselves. Especially in the south and west where water resources are precious, almost all cities have treatment plants and that same water that flushed your toilet can end up in your glass. Most often they are supplementing water from reservoirs, but why on earth would it be wasted when it can be treated and re-used?
Yes, water is BIG business, and treatment of water is big business. I don't think people are willing to wait the thousands of years for it all to filter through the earth and go through the same process naturally.
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Out here in CA, we have a saying: "Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting."
Mike
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
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I am reminded of a job I worked on some 30 years ago. I worked building and trades as a construction laborer then. There was an expansion at our water treatment facility. One day I was the lucky guy that got picked to shovel the pit at the bottom of one of their holding tanks. The tank was maybe 75' square with the four floor sides sloping to the center. There was a huge paddle with rubber scrapers that turned and scraped the floor pushing the solids into the pit. I think that was the nastiest construction task I ever had to do. I remember looking at the muddy brown water in those tanks and wondering how they ever got it clear and clean enough to drink.
The water here as always had a funky taste and that is why we bought the reverse osmosis system maybe ten years ago. I love the pure clean water to drink.
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Sometimes decisions from the heart are better than decisions from the brain.
Enjoy Life...
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Of course I thought of "Water World" right away.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family." (Sandra Bullock)
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Never saw toilets or showers on any of the TV variants, neither.
I think it's the outfits - like rebreathers for excretae.
The newest outfits are Yellow, the oldest Red.
Every so often, you got to dispose of a Red suit
either out the airlock or on some hostile rock.
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"recycled" 7 times by all accounts
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Dave
You did what !
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Notice to everyone in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area FLUSH TWICE, HOUSTON NEEDS THE WATER.
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On a planet 2/3rds cover in the stuff, every 4 seconds a child under 5 dies because they didn't get a drink.........gives a bit of perspective to the "need for water"
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Dave
You did what !
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Yeah, when Movies were competing to win the Razzie.
They don't make 'em like they used to.
Guess they learnt their lesson.
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Just a reminder! Soilent Green is People !
Epilog 24TT(somewhere between 35-45 watts), CorelX4, Photograv(the old one, it works!), HotStamping, Pantograph, Vulcanizer, PolymerPlatemaker, Sandblasting Cabinet, and a 30 year collection of Assorted 'Junque'
Every time you make a typo, the errorists win
I Have to think outside the box.. I don't fit in it anymore
Experience is a wonderful thing.
It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Every silver lining has a cloud around it
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Charles, I always figured that the replicators were an offshoot of the transporters. If you can turn matter into energy and back into matter, why can't you store the pattern of food and go directly from energy to matter. The critical premise in Start Trek is that energy is limitless so going from energy to matter shouldn't be a problem.
That said, I've always wondered what a Star Trek toilet would be like. I don't identify as a Trekkie but I have watched all the series and movies. I can think of only one case where a character was in a bathroom (Neelix in Voyager) but I have never seen any other plumbing. So would would the toilet be? Or maybe they just beam it out?
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If you want to know more about water in the west, I reccomend reading a book titled, "Caddilac Desert."
Shawn
"no trees were harmed in the creation of this message, however some electrons were temporarily inconvenienced."
"I resent having to use my brain to do your thinking"
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Sounds like a good plan to me. Feed them pee water, everyone switches to bottled water, problem solved...
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When you’re walking in the woods breathing that nice clean air, keep in mind that you’re inhaling PLANT POOP (oxygen).
Mmmm- Ahhhh! That’s some good poop!
And Creekers, remember when in the woods to exhale a bit more forcefully, to give the trees a ‘lil extra. We have to think of the children you know.
Not being someone who can say something. For over 30 years I worked at the Detroit Sewerage treatment plant. On an average day we dumped 700 million gallons of treated sewage in the Detroit River for everyone downstream’s drinking pleasure. I retired in 2012.
The reason I bring this up now is the Don’t Drink the Water advisory that Monroe and Toledo has. It’s being blamed on alge toxins (microcystin) but I just wonder how the plant is doing. I notice that the plant didn’t come up in the news as a source of pollution even though it has long been the largest single point polluter on the Great Lakes.
-Tom
Who over the decades because of system foul ups, SNAFUs and various screwups, has been responsible for several billion (yes, that’s billion with a B) gallons of untreated/ partially treated sewage getting dumped in the river.
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